Holbrook Jackson Quotes
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The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
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When in doubt, risk it
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The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
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Happiness is a form of courage.
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
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Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
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Genius is intuition on fire.
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There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
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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.
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The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
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Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
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People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.
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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
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Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
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The end of reading is not more books but more life.
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Great books conserve time.
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Intuition is reason in a hurry.
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Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
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Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
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Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.
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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.
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Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
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Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.
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No man is ever old enough to know better.
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The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
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As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
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Originality is only variation.
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Genius is initiative on fire.
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Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
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Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.
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