Babyhood Quote by J. G. Holland

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

— J. G. Holland

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,…

— J. G. Holland

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life around you…

— J. G. Holland

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much…

— J. G. Holland

I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for…

— J. G. Holland

No man ever feels the restraint of law so long as he remains within the sphere of his liberty -- a sphere, by the…

— J. G. Holland

All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline…

— J. G. Holland

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

— J. G. Holland

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.

— J. G. Holland

“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~ J.”

— J. G. Holland

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

— J. G. Holland

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

— J. G. Holland