The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the… — J. G. Holland Approval Copy Share Image
Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. — J. G. Holland Patience Copy Share Image
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. — J. G. Holland Great sales Copy Share Image
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress. — J. G. Holland Compensation Copy Share Image
So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my… — J. G. Holland Advantage 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
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God… — J. G. Holland Behinds 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
Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding… — J. G. Holland Break Copy Share Image
If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have… — J. G. Holland Corn Copy Share Image
We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder… — J. G. Holland Certain Copy Share Image
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments. — J. G. Holland Conscious Copy Share Image
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around… — J. G. Holland Absolutes Copy Share Image
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. — J. G. Holland Advantage Copy Share Image
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. — J. G. Holland Goodness Copy Share Image
Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the… — J. G. Holland Body 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
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
A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes… — J. G. Holland Breathe Copy Share Image
There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin. — J. G. Holland Degrees Copy Share Image
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J. G. Holland Fashionable Copy Share Image
