The reason why he wrote while standing up:

Nothing conduces to brevity like a caving in of the knees.


As quoted in: Yankee from Olympus (1944), Catherine Drinker Bowen

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Nothing conduces to brevity like a caving in of the knees.

Nothing conduces to brevity like a caving in of the knees.

Nothing conduces to brevity like a caving in of the knees.

Nothing conduces to brevity like a caving in of the knees.