25 Quotes by John Morley

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

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

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

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

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

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

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