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

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

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

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
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.
John 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 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 Morley

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