J. G. Holland Quotes
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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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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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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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Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
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Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
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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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The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.
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It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.
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Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
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No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
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A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.
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If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
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Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
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Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
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Wants keep pace with wealth always.
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I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.