The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.
J. G. HollandIt is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny.
J. G. HollandMany men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
J. G. HollandFashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.
J. G. Holland