Josiah Gilbert Holland

Who was Josiah Gilbert Holland?

Josiah Gilbert Holland was an American novelist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothy Titcomb. He helped to found and edit Scribner's Monthly, in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter Sweet", "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn There's a Song in the Air, and many others.

Famous Quotes:

• Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
• The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
• The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
• Calmness is the cradle of power.
• Work and wait, work and wait is what God says to us in creation.
• Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,
• The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
• One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
• Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
• Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.