If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.

— John Lubbock

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

— John Lubbock

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

— John Lubbock

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

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

— John Lubbock

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

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

— John Lubbock

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.

— John Lubbock

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

— John Lubbock

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

— John Lubbock