J. G. Holland Quotes
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Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.
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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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Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
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Immortality--twin sister of Eternity.
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So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.
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The most beautiful sight this earth affords is a man or woman so filled with love that duty is only a name, and its performance the natural outflow and expression of the love which has become the central principle of their life.
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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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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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Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
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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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Wants keep pace with wealth always.
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Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
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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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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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A mind grows by what it feeds on.
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Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.
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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.