Quotes from Holbrook Jackson

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

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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."

Be contented when you have got all you want.

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

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

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

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

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

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 practised 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.

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

What is more useless than the popular novel that has passed its boom!

the end of reading is not more books but more life

Genius is initiative on fire.

If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.

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

Intuition is reason in a hurry

The better the book the more room for the reader.

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

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

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