Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
– J. G. Holland
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
– J. G. Holland
Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
– J. G. Holland
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
– J. G. Holland
Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
– J. G. Holland
The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
– J. G. Holland
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
– J. G. Holland
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
– J. G. Holland
The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
– J. G. Holland
The temple of art is built in words.
– J. G. Holland
There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
– J. G. Holland
Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
– J. G. Holland
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.