John Lubbock

“A cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.”

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

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

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art colo...”

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a was...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen t...”

“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”

“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The child...”

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

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

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a was...”

“Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

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

“If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.”

“We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.”

“Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.”

“Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.”

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