Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work; and whenever he finds that kind of work which he can do… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland Copy Share
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Copy Share
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
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
