Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. — J. G. Holland Accidents Copy Share Image
I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing. — J. G. Holland Duty 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
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. — J. G. Holland Advantage Copy Share Image
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words. — J. G. Holland Art Copy Share Image
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. — J. G. Holland Barnacles 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
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
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
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
Ah! soul of mine! Ah! soul of mine! Thy sluggish senses are but bars That stand between thee and the stars, And… — J. G. Holland 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 Copy Share Image
I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism… — J. G. Holland Child 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 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
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
I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I… — J. G. Holland Assurance Copy Share Image
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that… — J. G. Holland Action 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… — J. G. Holland Blessedness Copy Share Image
Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the… — J. G. Holland America Copy Share Image
To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen… — J. G. Holland Earnestly Copy Share Image
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed. — J. G. Holland Men 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
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.” — J. G. Holland Bird Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them. — 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 most precious possession that ever comes to man in this life is a woman' heart.” — J. G. Holland Heart Copy Share Image
