Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes