Beliefs must be lived in for a good while, before they accommodate themselves to the soul's wants, and wear loose enough to be comfortable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.