Quote of the Day — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
January 23, 2026
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against the wind, but we must sail and cannot drift nor lie at anchor. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841–1935
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1841–1935
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was born on March 8, 1841, in Boston, Massachusetts, into one of the most intellectually distinguished families in America. His father, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., was a celebrated physician, poet, and essayist, a member of the literary circle that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. His mother, Amelia Lee Jackson, came from a prominent Boston family. Young Holmes grew up in an atmosphere of learning, literature, and lively conversation, and he was educated at the finest institutions New England had to offer. He entered Harvard College in 1857 and graduated in 1861,…
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