We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Holbrook JacksonA good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
Holbrook JacksonThe 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 JacksonThere are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
Holbrook JacksonPast and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.
Holbrook JacksonEducation begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
Holbrook JacksonBooks 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.
Holbrook JacksonA 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 JacksonFear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
Holbrook JacksonWhy did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
Holbrook JacksonThe time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
Holbrook JacksonBook-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
Holbrook JacksonThe poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
Holbrook JacksonBeware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Holbrook JacksonThe 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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