Holbrook Jackson
12 quotes
Biography
"Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today."
"A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement."
"Suffer fools gladly; they may be right."
"There are idle students and cavillers, who have advertised Burton as the creator of a peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiæ, loosely tied, the creator, in short, of a book for a rainy day and a cosy corner."
"No man is ever old enough to know better."
"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."
"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."
"Genius is initiative on fire."
"History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity."
"Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it."
"Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you."
"Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you."