101 Quotes by John Lubbock

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

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

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

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

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.