Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Heart

• 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, Jr.

  Book, Men, Advice

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.35, The Floating Press

• The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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