You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;—something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold in a rock has to do with the grass a thousand feet above it.


The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;—something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold...

You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;—something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold...

You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;—something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold...

You know well enough what I mean by youth and age;—something in the soul, which has no more to do with the color of the hair than the vein of gold...