“ Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. John Lubbock
“ All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles,… 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
“ 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
“ To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness. John Lubbock
“ A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody. John Lubbock
“ A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock
“ Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. John Lubbock
“ In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting. John Lubbock
“ A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock
“ Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. John Lubbock
“ 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. John Lubbock
“ I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can… John Lubbock
