I won’t say, the more intellect, the less capacity for loving; for that would do wrong to the understanding and reason; — but, on the other hand, that the brain often runs away with the heart’s best blood, which gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or poetry, instead of making one other heart happy, I have no question.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar

Article (1858-04), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly
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Collected in Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 6 (1858).