Quotes by John Lubbock

• 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 day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
• A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
• Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
• What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
• 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.
• 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 waste of time.
• Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
• When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
• Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
• 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.
• The most beautiful things in life are not things, they are moments captured in the heart forever.