John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

"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."

"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."

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

"A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."

"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."

"I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell on the Duty of Happiness as well as the Happiness of Duty; for we ought to be as cheerful as we can, if only because to be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others."

"We profit little by books we do not enjoy."

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

"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."