Quotes from John Morley

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

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.

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.