John Morley Quotes
"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."
- John Morley
(Related: Crime, Duty, Laws, Pretty, Sun, Worship)
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
- John Morley
(Related: Man)
"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."
- John Morley
(Related: Virtue, Act, Improvement, Mankind, Trouble)
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart."
- John Morley
(Related: Business, Life)
"Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders."
- John Morley
(Related: Politics, Choice, Lies)
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character."
- John Morley
(Related: Character, Limitations, Man)
"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils."
- John Morley
(Related: Politics, Choice)
"He who hates vice hates men."
- John Morley
(Related: Men, Vice)
"Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law."
- John Morley
(Related: Cause, Evolution, Force, Law)
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
- John Morley
(Related: Opinions, Worth)
"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."
- John Morley
(Related: Sense)
"A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation."
- John Morley
(Related: Life)
"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
- John Morley
(Related: Emotion)
"Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions."
- John Morley
(Related: Literature)