Quotes from Josiah G. Holland

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.

[T]hey are the offspring of experience... instinct with blood and breath and vitality.... They are not propositions, conceived in the understanding and addressed to life, but propositions born of life itself, and addressed to the heart. They were not conceived in the minds of the great few, but they sprang from the life of the people.

The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilization.

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.