The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the… — 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
