J. G. Holland Quotes
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
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Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more to reform outside of itself than in itself.
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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
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There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.
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Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.
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I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
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It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.
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Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
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Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
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Life always take on the character of its motive.
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Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.
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Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
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There are no twin souls in God's universe.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.