John Morley Quotes
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No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
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You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
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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.
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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
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In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
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Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
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Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
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There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
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The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
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The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
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We all know that the besetting danger of Churches is formalism; the besetting danger of State action, of corporate action, is officialism and mechanism; and we all know that it is a drawback to many modern ideals that they rest upon materialism and a soulless secularism.
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
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Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
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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.
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He who hates vice hates men.
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There is a loud cry in these days for clues that shall guide the plain man through the vast bewildering labyrinth of printed volumes.
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Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.
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A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
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It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.