Oliver Wendell Holmes may refer to: (wikipedia)
The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.