Quotes from John Morley

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

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

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

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

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

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

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

He who hates vice hates men.

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

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

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.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive.

Aphorism or maxim, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books, at least in prose, are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it; and that it is one of the great objects, apart from the mere acquisition of knowledge, which men ought to seek in the reading of books.

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

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

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

He who hates vice hates men.