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.
John LubbockThe world would be better and brighter if people were taught the duty of being happy as well as the happiness of doing their duty.
John LubbockWe must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.
John LubbockThe veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
John Lubbock