25 Quotes by John Morley

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

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

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

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

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

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

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.

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