Just had to pass along a quick Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. snippet that was the “Thought for Today” in Wordsmith.org’s A.Word.A.Day email:
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power.
This is the same Holmes (father of the Supreme Court Justice) who brought us the wonderful “Wonderful One-Hoss-Shay” which Henry Petroski writes so thoughtfully about in To Engineer Is Human. Sounds like an interesting fellow.