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Quotes by J. G. Holland
The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.— filed under Art
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks, And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks, As if his head were as full of kinks And curious riddles as any sphinx!— filed under Awkwardness
to Study. Nature is the master of talent; genius is the master of nature.— filed under Genius
Music was a thing of the soul-a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.— filed under Music
I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth, The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best"; The Spartan Chilo, "Know thyself," a heavenborn phrase confessed. Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command, " "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylenes' strand; Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life," And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife"; Milesian Thales urged that "None should e'er a surety be"; Few were their words, but if you look, you'll much in little see. p. From the Greek. Author unknown. The heart is wiser than the intellect.— filed under Wisdom
There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.— filed under Words