John Lubbock
A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Taken
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.Collection: Silent
Here are the three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong? Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our education ought to help us to answer these questions.Collection: Beautiful
Everyone must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around; and most of us can, as we choose, make of this world either a palace or a prison.Collection: Cheerful
Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.Collection: Heart
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.Collection: Education
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.Collection: Library
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.Collection: Art
If you have the least doubt about it, do not marry.Collection: Doubt
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.Collection: Taken
We profit little by books we do not enjoy.Collection: Book
We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.Collection: Wind
Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.Collection: Men
There are temptations which strong exercise best enables us to resistCollection: Strong
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.Collection: Children
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Blessing
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.Collection: Eye
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.Collection: Ignorance