Holbrook Jackson famous quotes

Happiness is a form of courage.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Happy #Form

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Reading #Worth Reading

Genius is initiative on fire.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Fire #Genius #Initiative

Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Habit #Undoing

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
-- Holbrook Jackson

Your library is your portrait.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Library #Portraits

The end of reading is not more books but more life.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Reading #Ends

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Regret #Vices #Ethics

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Reading #Today

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Mind #Generations #Censorship

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Art #Reading #Night

Be contented, when you have got all you want.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Want

No man is ever old enough to know better.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Men #Age #Aging

Originality is only variation.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Variation #Originality

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Mistake #Ignorance #Men

The newest books are those that never grow old.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Grows

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Men #Self #Sorrow

The better the book the more room for the reader.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Rooms #Reader

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Real #Blind #Great Men

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Men #Revolution #Revolt

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Scholarship #Pedantry

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Suffering #May #Fool

Great books conserve time.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Writing #Great Book

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Sacrifice #Form #Bargaining

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Joy #Forever

When in doubt, risk it
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Risk #Doubt #Risk It

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Happiness #Laughter #Joy

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Giving #Rich #Poor

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Reading #Book #Drunk

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Obscenity #Prove

Intuition is reason in a hurry.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Intuition #Reason #Instinct

Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Joy #Desire #Path

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Home #Air

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Friendship #Dog #Men

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Love #Self #Subtle

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Children #Hate #Book

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Reading #Exercise

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Book #Jealous #Soul

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
-- Holbrook Jackson

#Class #Two #Society