The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock
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
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. – John Lubbock
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. – John Lubbock
To those who visited the old Library of Congress at the Capitol he will always be associated with it — a long, lean figure, in scrupulous frock, erect at a standing desk, and intent upon its littered burden, while the masses of material surged incoherently about him. – Herbert Putnam, of librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908), 1908, wo