Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such. — 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
