J. G. Holland Quotes
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.
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A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.
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Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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What is the little one thinking about?
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How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery.
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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
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A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
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A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!
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Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.
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I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.
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Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And shut thee from the world divine.
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A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
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The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.