J. G. Holland Quotes
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What is the little one thinking about?
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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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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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No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the way, always large enough for the full exercise of his powers and the supply of all his legitimate wants.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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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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God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling.
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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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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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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.
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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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He never said it would be easy, He just said He'd go with me.
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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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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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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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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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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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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.