Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Letter to Julia Ward Howe, 27 May 1889. The Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 2, edited by John T. Morse Jr., Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896, p. 184.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. In addition to his work as an author and poet, Holmes also served as a physician, professor, lecturer and inventor and, although he never practiced it, he received formal training in law.
