Holbrook Jackson Quotations

The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

The newest books are those that never grow old.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.

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.

Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.