John Andrew Holmes

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts his own inclinations society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, how he must hate the taxpayer!

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.