My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within its waters still and deep My sorrow and my pain. I thank Thee for my dreams, which loose… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
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,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
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… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
