The Use Of Life Quotes

“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.”
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

“Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.”
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

“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.”
― John Lubbock, The Use Of Life

“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.”
― John Lubbock 1st Baron Avebury 1834-1, The Use Of Life