130 Quotes by J.G. Holland

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves.

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most honorable and delightful in the world. He never institutes a channel for the passage of His bounties that those bounties do not enrich and beautify.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

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

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.

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?

Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man’s rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction – this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

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