How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it. — John Lubbock Character Copy Share Image
Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them — John Lubbock Ability Copy Share Image
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist — John Lubbock Exercise Copy Share Image
To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others. — John Lubbock Contribution Copy Share Image
A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind. — John Lubbock Business Copy Share Image
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. — John Lubbock Happiness Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness. — John Lubbock Clever Copy Share Image
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.” — John Lubbock Advice Copy Share Image
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish… — John Lubbock Children Copy Share Image
A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the… — John Lubbock Delight Copy Share Image
Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks… — John Lubbock Bird Copy Share Image
When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing,… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or… — John Lubbock End of summer Copy Share Image
Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong?… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of… — John Lubbock Delight Copy Share Image
This is a great way to become more conscious. Your intention and motives are fundamental to the results you will receive. Set… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“To do something, however small, to make others happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most elevating hope, which can inspire… — John Lubbock Ambition Copy Share Image
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner. — John Lubbock Arithmetic Copy Share Image
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. — John Lubbock God Copy Share Image
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. — John Lubbock Education Copy Share Image
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish… — John Lubbock Doubt Copy Share Image
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Though it is a great mistake to make friends of the wicked and foolish, it is unwise to make enemies of them,… — John Lubbock Enemies Copy Share Image
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color… — John Lubbock Art Copy Share Image
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
“A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.” — John Lubbock Education Copy Share Image
There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose. — John Lubbock Blessing Copy Share Image
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or… — John Lubbock Anxiety Copy Share Image
Exercise of the muscles keeps the body in health, and exercise of the brain brings peace of mind. — John Lubbock Body Copy Share Image
Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble. — John Lubbock Acts of heroism Copy Share Image
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. — John Lubbock Beautiful Copy Share Image
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance. — John Lubbock Ignorance Copy Share Image
