130 Quotes by J.G. Holland

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

This world of sense, built by the imagination – how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life, it smiles in sunlight and sleeps in green, known of the world not by communion of knowledge, but by personal, secret discovery!

Every man who can be a first-rate something – as every man can be who is a man at all – has no right to be a fifth-rate something; for a fifth-rate something is not better than a first-rate nothing.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element, of his constitution.

Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man’s power.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

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

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