John Lubbock
11 quotes
"Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life."
"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."
"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."
"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."
"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."
"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work."
"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."
"A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around."
"Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven."
"To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness."
"A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody."