Holbrook Jackson
Holbrook Jackson
George Holbrook Jacksonwas a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
library portraits
Your library is your portrait.
inspirational motivational book
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
night-time appointments
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
want
Be contented, when you have got all you want.
mind censorship-in-books generations
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.
habit undoing
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
variation originality
Originality is only variation.
men self sorrow
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.
two class society
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
art people want
People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.
advice forgiving
Forgive everybody but yourself.
book jealous soul
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.
elderly advice trying
Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.
fire genius initiative
Genius is initiative on fire.