Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall. Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Copy Quote More from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. “Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealous…” “Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.” “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they…” “Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.”