Holbrook Jackson

“The best books are those that tell you what you know already.”

“There are many arts among men, and all are from the gods, but I hold that the art of reading is the greatest of them all.”

“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same.”

“Happiness is a form of courage.”

“We read to link ourselves with the past and the future.”

“The book-lover is a collector, and his collection is not a mere accumulation of things, but a selection of friends.”

“The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.”

“The business of books is not the selling of them, but the reading of them.”

“Librarians are the keepers of the word, and the guardians of the dream.”

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”