J. G. Holland Quotes
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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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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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Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
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Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.
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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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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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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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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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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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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.
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That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
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We work and that is godlike.
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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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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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A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
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Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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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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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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A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.