Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. — J. G. Holland Patience Copy Share Image
The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J. G. Holland Fashionable 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 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
The man who loves home best, and loves it most unselfishly, loves his country best. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other. — J. G. Holland Communion Copy Share Image
It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny. — J. G. Holland Destiny 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
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
Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth… — J. G. Holland 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
Heaven is not reached at a single bound. But we build the ladder by which we rise. From the lowly earth to… — J. G. Holland Bounds 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 Copy Share Image
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence,… — J. G. Holland Dignity Copy Share Image
There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of… — J. G. Holland Creation Copy Share Image
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at… — J. G. Holland Bible Copy Share Image
I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of… — J. G. Holland 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 Copy Share Image
My idea of the Christian religion is, that it is an inspiration and its vital consequences--an inspiration and a life--God's life breathed… — J. G. Holland Christian 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 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 Copy Share Image
Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized. — J. G. Holland Good man 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 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
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. — J. G. Holland Affinity Copy Share Image
Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope… — J. G. Holland Better things Copy Share Image
Every man who can be a first-rate something -- as every man can be who is a man at all -- has… — J. G. Holland Ability Copy Share Image
The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we… — J. G. Holland 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
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 Copy Share Image
A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God… — J. G. Holland Beneficence Copy Share Image
Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more… — J. G. Holland Doubtless 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 Copy Share Image
God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's… — J. G. Holland Defence Copy Share Image
