When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. John Lubbock on best
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock on education
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock on happiness
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 on nature
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 on nature
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. John Lubbock on peace
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 on time
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. John Lubbock on work
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 on ambition
There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought ot help us to answer these questions. John Lubbock on beauty