Holbrook Jackson Book Quotations

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

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.

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.

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

Great books conserve time.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

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."

Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.

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.

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.