Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. — J. G. Holland Communion 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
A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. — J. G. Holland Feels Copy Share Image
Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable. — J. G. Holland Despicable Copy Share Image
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland Discovering Copy Share Image
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures. — J. G. Holland Endure Copy Share Image
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. — J. G. Holland Patience Copy Share Image
God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a… — J. G. Holland Belief Copy Share Image
I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the… — J. G. Holland Air Copy Share Image
The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central… — J. G. Holland Character Copy Share Image
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all… — J. G. Holland Art 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
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
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. — J. G. Holland Development 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… — J. G. Holland Animal Copy Share Image
Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance his been made by any nation… — J. G. Holland Christian 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… — J. G. Holland Adjustment Copy Share Image
God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust… — J. G. Holland Demand 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 most precious possession that ever comes to man in this life is a woman' heart.” — J. G. Holland Heart Copy Share Image
God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. — J. G. Holland Demand Copy Share Image
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J. G. Holland Fashionable 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
Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone. — J. G. Holland Men 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
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. — J. G. Holland Confession Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them. — J. G. Holland Made Copy Share Image
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Bird Copy Share Image
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J. G. Holland Every man Copy Share Image
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we… — J. G. Holland Fiction 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… — J. G. Holland Betrayal Copy Share Image
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
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
No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere,… — J. G. Holland Enough Copy Share Image
No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and… — J. G. Holland Genuine Copy Share Image
The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy… — J. G. Holland Destroyed Copy Share Image
Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing… — J. G. Holland Bird Copy Share Image
It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some… — J. G. Holland Filled Copy Share Image
Music is a thing of the soul-a roselipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another… — J. G. Holland Bird Copy Share Image
