Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes


Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.


Citations

Holland, Josiah Gilbert. Gold-Foil, Hammered from Popular Proverbs. Charles Scribner, 1859, p. 182.

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Josiah Gilbert Holland
Josiah Gilbert Holland
  • Born: July 24, 1819
  • Died: October 12, 1881
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

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 (afterwards the Century Magazine), in which appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle, The Story of Sevenoaks, Nicholas Minturn. In poetry he wrote "Bitter-Sweet" (1858), "Kathrina", the lyrics to the Methodist hymn "There's a Song in the Air", and many others.