J. G. Holland Quotes - Page 6

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

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

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

Posts of honor are evermore posts of danger and of care.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

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 into a man and breathed through a man--the highest inspiration and the highest life of every soul which it inhabits; and, furthermore, that the soul which it inhabits can have no high issue which is not essentially religious.

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

Wealth is the least trustworthy of anchors.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

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

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

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

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

We work and that is godlike.

Work was made for man, and not man for work. Work is man's servant, both in its results to the worker and the world. Man is not work's servant, save as an almost universal perversion has made him such.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.