Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

In that worthiest of all struggles, the struggle for self-mastery and goodness, we are far less patient with ourselves than God is with us.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland