Quotes by Lubbock, Sir John

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. >>

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer da >>

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. >>

Quotations about Ambition

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, >>

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher >>

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be. >>

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.

Lubbock, Sir John