Holbrook Jackson Quotes - Page 2

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

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

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

The newest books are those that never grow old.

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

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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

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

Intuition is reason in a hurry.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

Forgive everybody but yourself.

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

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

Genius is intuition on fire.

As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.

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

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

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."

The better the book the more room for the reader.