Many 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. HollandLaws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
J. G. HollandThere is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.
J. G. HollandLabor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
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