John Lubbock
John Lubbock
The Right Honourable John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC FRS DCL LLD, known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth30 April 1834
library littles cost
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.
worry people anxiety
We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
horse mind contentment
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, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.
happiness life-and-love violin
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
strong exercise temptation
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resist
friendship cheerful brightness
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.
men lazy-man doe
The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.
mind results circumstances
Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.
teaching reading writing
Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.
blessing too-late late
Many a blessing has been recognized too late.
mind needs crowds
A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.
memories flower years
Happy indeed is the naturalist: to him the seasons come round like old friends; to him the birds sing: as he walks along, the flowers stretch out from the hedges, or look up from the ground, and as each year fades away, he looks back on a fresh store of happy memories.
wind treasure sailor
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
nature thinking tree
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.