J. G. Holland Quotes
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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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Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
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What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
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There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
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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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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
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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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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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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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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.
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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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Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.
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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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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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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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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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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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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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if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.