What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into… — 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
