George Holbrook Jackson (31 December 1874 – 16 June 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.
Happiness is a form of courage.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
Be contented, when you have got all you want.
Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
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.
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
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.
Genius is intuition on fire.
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever.
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.
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.
Forgive everybody but yourself.
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.
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it.
Your readiest desire is your path to joy. . . even if it destroys you.