Quotes By John Morley

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

He who hates vice hates men.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.