Quotes by John Viscount Morley

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
– John Viscount Morley
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
– John Viscount Morley
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
– John Viscount Morley
He who hates vice hates men.
– John Viscount Morley
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
– John Viscount Morley
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
– John Viscount Morley
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
– John Viscount Morley
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.
– John Viscount Morley
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.
– John Viscount Morley
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
– John Viscount Morley
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
– John Viscount Morley
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
– John Viscount Morley