Quotes from J. G. Holland

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands.

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.

Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.

Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.

We work and that is godlike.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.

Calmness is the cradle of power.