The complete online text of The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician and author, contributed to the advancement of medicine and wrote witty essays and popular poems. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Aug. 29, 1809, scion of a well-established New E...

Best known as a poet and essayist, Oliver Wendell Holmes was also a renowned physician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes came from an old New England family. He earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, then served as profes...

Best known as a poet and essayist, Oliver Wendell Holmes was also a renowned physician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes came from an old New England family. He earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, then served as profes...

A BEAT PATROLMAN had considerable at presence once. His discretion was wide. He knew everyone for square blocks around. But in New York tonight he isn't even allowed to make a crack arrest. Scott McKeown, the Guardian Angels' West Coast director, told us, "It...

Daniel Schifrin The Jewish Week 12-22-1994 Guardian Angel. Sometimes we in the Jewish community are so hung up about our identity that we have more respect for outsiders than for our own. In that case, we would be wise to heed the words...

In a March 30 story about the shootings of three people in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, The Associated Press, relying on information from a police spokesman, reported erroneously that a person who was shot aboard a bus had died. The victim was critically injured and was...

The Archdiocese of New York is handing out coloring and comic books that warn children about sex predators, the first such effort by a Roman Catholic diocese in the United States.In the coloring book, a perky guardian angel tells children not to keep secrets from...