Josiah Gilbert Holland quotes
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881): Novelist, poet, editor. The library holds 49 quotes by Josiah Gilbert Holland. The 49 below are the most quoted; search the library in the maker for the rest.
Often about: life, faith, power, patience, home, love
The best-known Josiah Gilbert Holland quotes
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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic to life.
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The secret of man’s success resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them.
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Better far to die in the old harness than to try to put on another.
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One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.
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There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
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A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not began to comprehend the real nature of it.
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No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.
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Labour is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
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It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
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Duty, especially out of the domain of love, is the veriest slavery in the world.
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The Christian religion is an inspiration and life—God’s life breathed into a man and breathed through a man.
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The man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.
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The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilisation.
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God gives every bird its nest, but does not throw it into the nest.
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Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.
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God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity.
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Power, in its quality and degree, is the measure of manhood.
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“Work and wait,” “Work and wait,” is what God says to us in creation and in providence.
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There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.
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Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man’s rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all.
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Every man’s powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood.
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Everything a man parts with is the cost of something. Everything he receives is the compensation of something.
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Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.
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Perfect love holds the secret of the world’s perfect liberty.
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It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up according to God’s original pattern, than to be half a man, made after some other man’s pattern.
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Like talks best with like, laughs best with like, works best with like, and enjoys best with like; and it cannot help it.
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Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised.
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A man is always nearest to his good when at home, and farthest from it when away.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.
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Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man’s power.
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Better is an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us.
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Home, in one form or another, is the great object of life.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
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A man who has nothing to do is the devil’s playfellow.
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Love makes labour light.
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The charity that thinketh no evil trusts in God and trusts in man.
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Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
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Character is a thing that will take care of itself.
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It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
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Work was made for man, and not man for work.
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There are no twin souls in God’s universe.
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If you want learning, you must work for it.
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Repose is the cradle of power.
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Public opinion is democratic.
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Ideals are the world’s masters.
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Humanity is constitutionally lazy.