Holbrook Jackson Quotes
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
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.
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.
A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.
History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
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.
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
