Holbrook Jackson
Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.Collection: Patience
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.Collection: Happiness
Genius is initiative on fire.Collection: Intelligence
No man is ever old enough to know better.Collection: Age
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Your library is your portrait.
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.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.
Happiness is a form of courage.Collection: Motivational
Books worth reading are worth re-reading.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Men
Originality is only variation.Collection: Variation
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.Collection: Inspirational
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?Collection: Funny
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.Collection: Class
Be contented, when you have got all you want.Collection: Want
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.Collection: Men
Great books conserve time.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Book
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.Collection: Book
Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.Collection: Sacrifice
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.Collection: Scholarship
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.Collection: Night Time
People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.Collection: Art
Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.Collection: Love
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Book
When in doubt, risk itCollection: Risk
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.Collection: Children
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.Collection: Book
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.Collection: Mind
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.Collection: Regret
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.Collection: Book
Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.Collection: Elderly
Forgive everybody but yourself.Collection: Advice
Your readiest desire is your path to joy... even if it destroys you.Collection: Joy
Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.Collection: Friendship
Genius is intuition on fire.Collection: Fire
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.Collection: Ideas
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."Collection: Book
The better the book the more room for the reader.Collection: Book