John Lubbock

Rest is by no means a waste of time.

— John Lubbock

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

— John Lubbock

Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.

— John Lubbock

“We profit little by books we do not enjoy.”

— John Lubbock

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

— John Lubbock

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

— John Lubbock

Do what you will, only do something.

— John Lubbock

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

— John Lubbock

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

— John Lubbock

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

— John Lubbock

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

— John Lubbock

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the…

— John Lubbock

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

— John Lubbock

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

— John Lubbock

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

— John Lubbock

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the…

— John Lubbock

Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks…

— John Lubbock

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing,…

— John Lubbock

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur…

— John Lubbock

It is sad, indeed, to see how man wastes his opportunities. How many could be made happy, with the blessings which are…

— John Lubbock

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us…

— John Lubbock

The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or…

— John Lubbock

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen…

— John Lubbock

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that…

— John Lubbock

Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in…

— John Lubbock

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are…

— John Lubbock

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy…

— John Lubbock

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of…

— John Lubbock

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of…

— John Lubbock

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop,…

— John Lubbock

“I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of…

— John Lubbock

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain…

— John Lubbock

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

— John Lubbock

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

— John Lubbock

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

— John Lubbock

There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist

— John Lubbock

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

— John Lubbock

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

— John Lubbock

If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.

— John Lubbock