Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quote

The longer I live, the more I am satisfied of two things: first, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamon-fashion, with many facets answering to the many-planed aspects of the world about them; secondly, that society is always trying in some way or other to grind us down to a single flat surface.


The Atlantic Monthly (February 1859)


The longer I live, the more I am satisfied of two things: first, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamon-fashion, with many facets...

The longer I live, the more I am satisfied of two things: first, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamon-fashion, with many facets...

The longer I live, the more I am satisfied of two things: first, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamon-fashion, with many facets...

The longer I live, the more I am satisfied of two things: first, that the truest lives are those that are cut rose-diamon-fashion, with many facets...