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
Topics: Books
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest of cowardice.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: 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
Topics: Reading
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Reading, Books
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Vice
Genius is initiative on fire.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Genius, Creativity
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Happiness
Your readiest desire is your path to joy even if it destroys you.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Happiness, Being Ourselves
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Wealth
Happiness is a form of courage.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Happiness
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Reason
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
Topics: Solitude
No man is ever old enough to know better.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Age
Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Dogs
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Habits
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it’s cowardice.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Patience
The newest books are those that never grow old.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Reading, Books
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
Topics: Sorrow, Sadness
Your library is your portrait.
—Holbrook Jackson
Topics: Libraries
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- C. P. Scott British Journalist, Editor
- George Augustus Henry Sala British Journalist
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin American Writer
- Katharine Whitehorn English Journalist
- Rudyard Kipling British Children’s Books Writer
- Mary Wollstonecraft English Writer, Feminist
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell Founder of the Boy Scouts
- G. K. Chesterton English Journalist
- Samuel Johnson British Essayist
- Daniel Defoe English Writer
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