Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American physician, poet, and essayist, known for his contributions to literature and medicine in the 19th century.

"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it."
Oliver Wendell Holmes