J. G. Holland Quotes
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The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames.
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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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Ideals are the world's masters.
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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.
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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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Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
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He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
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Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
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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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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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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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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.
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God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.
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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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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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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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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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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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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.