“Deal with him as a truant, if you will, but claim him, keep him, call him brother still!”

About Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

1809 – 1894

American physician, poet and essayist, author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table".

“People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.”

“Beware how you take away hope from any human being.”

“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”

“For he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.”

“Because it was he, because it was I.”

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

“A true friend is forever a friend.”

“And such a friendship ends not but with life.”

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.”