John Morley Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

“A proverb is good sense brought to a point.”

“In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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