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.
inspirational success summer
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.
education teacher nature
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
minutes accounts
Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.
song spring flower
Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.
love sympathy thoughtful
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
education appreciation teacher
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
morning may different
However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.
beauty beautiful sunset
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
inspirational being-happy attitude
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
motivational happiness letting-go
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.