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

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

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock

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

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

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
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.
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.
John Lubbock