Holbrook Jackson Quotes

Happiness is a form of courage.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

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.

Genius is initiative on fire.

Your library is your portrait.

Originality is only variation.

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

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

Be contented, when you have got all you want.

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

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.

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

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

Great books conserve time.

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.

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

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

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

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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

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.

When in doubt, risk it