Quotes by : John Lubbock

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we....

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the....

I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell....

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop,....

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

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the....

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters,....