Quotes from John Lubbock

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

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

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

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.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

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

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

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.

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

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

The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; 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

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

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

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

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

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.