J. G. Holland Quotes
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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
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There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.
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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish.
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Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.
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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.
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I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.
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We work and that is godlike.
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The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.