Holbrook Jackson

“Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.”

“Intuition is reason in a hurry.”

“The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.”

“Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.”

“Genius is initiative on fire.”

“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.”

“Your library is your portrait.”

“No man is ever old enough to know better.”

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

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

“A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.”

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

“Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.”

“Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.”

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