Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to… — J. G. Holland Art Copy Share Image
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. — J. G. Holland Achievement Copy Share Image
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that… — J. G. Holland Bird Copy Share Image
My God! I thank Thee for the bath of sleep, That wraps in balm my weary heart and brain, And drowns within… — J. G. Holland Abode Copy Share Image
Life is before you,- not earthly life alone, but life- a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. — J. G. Holland Eternity Copy Share Image
if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax. — J. G. Holland Authorship Copy Share Image
The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack… — J. G. Holland Age Copy Share Image
Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. — J. G. Holland Childhood Copy Share Image
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer. — J. G. Holland Divine Copy Share Image
The faculties of our souls differ as widely as the features of our faces and the forms of our frames. — J. G. Holland Faces Copy Share Image
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. — J. G. Holland Anger Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. — J. G. Holland Confession Copy Share Image
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life,… — J. G. Holland Built Copy Share Image
Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can… — J. G. Holland Failure 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… — J. G. Holland Baths Copy Share Image
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and… — J. G. Holland Babyhood Copy Share Image
The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is in being unselfish. — J. G. Holland Being loved Copy Share Image
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing. — J. G. Holland Godlike Copy Share Image
I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment… — J. G. Holland Charity Copy Share Image
If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great… — J. G. Holland Attributes Copy Share Image
