130 Quotes by J.G. Holland

Calmness is the cradle of power.

To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.

Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

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

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer’s character.

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.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

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

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.