130 Quotes by J.G. Holland

A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins – particularly fashionable sins.

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

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.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress.

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life’s best rewards and life’s best defences.

If we will measure other people’s corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.