John Lubbock

“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.”

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

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

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

“Art is the purifier of the spirit.”

“A wise system would make our own thoughts our best friends.”

“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.”

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

“The world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness.”

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

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

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

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

“The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.”

“To do what ought to be done, but would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.”