List of John Lubbock Quotes

Men Are More Helped By Sympathy Than By Service.

False Pleasures Come From Without And Are Imperfect: Happiness Is Internal And Our Own.

The Veil Is Slowly Rising, But As Regards Innumerable Questions We Must Be Content To Remain In Ignorance.

We Often Hear Of Bad Weather, But In Reality No Weather Is Bad. It Is All Delightful, Though In Different Ways. Some Weather May Be Bad For Farmers Or Crops, But For Man All Kinds Are Good. Sunshine Is Delicious, Rain Is Refreshing, Wind Braces Us Up, Snow Is Exhilarating.

We Are All Great Landed Proprietors, If We Only Knew It. What We Lack Is Not Land, But The Power To Enjoy It. Moreover, This Great Inheritance Has The Additional Advantage That It Entails No Labor, Requires No Management. The Landlord Has The Trouble, But The Landscape Belongs To Everyone Who Has Eyes To See It.

Savages Have Often Been Likened To Children, And The Comparison Is Not Only Correct But Also Highly Instructive. Many Naturalists Consider That The Early Condition Of The Individual Indicates That Of The Race,-that The Best Test Of The Affinities Of A Species Are The Stages Through Which It Passes. So Also It Is In The Case Of Man; The Life Of Each Individual Is An Epitome Of The History Of The Race, And The Gradual Development Of The Child Illustrates That Of The Species.

It Is Sad, Indeed, To See How Man Wastes His Opportunities. How Many Could Be Made Happy, With The Blessings Which Are Recklessly Wasted Or Thrown Away.

We Profit Little By Books We Do Not Enjoy.

We Must Be Careful What We Read, And Not, Like The Sailors Of Ulysses, Take Bags Of Wind For Sacks Of Treasure.

Cultivate All Your Faculties; You Must Either Use Them Or Lose Them

There Are Temptations Which Strong Exercise Best Enables Us To Resist

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.