C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Play
Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.
J. G. Holland.
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.
J. G. Holland.
It is the great harmonizer of the human faculties, overstrained and made inharmonious by labor. It is the agency that keeps alive and in healthy activity the faculties and sympathies which work fails to use or helps to repress. It is the conservator of moral, mental, and physical health.
J. G. Holland.