John Morley

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

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

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

“Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.”

“It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.”

“History is a pageant, not a philosophy.”

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

“Politics is a field where action is one long second-best.”

“Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.”

“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.”

“To-day is yesterday's pupil.”

“Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.”

“In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.”

“Revolutions are not made with rosewater.”

“The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination.”

“Great economic and social forces flow with a tidal sweep over communities that are only half conscious of that which is befalling them.”

“Evolution is not a force but a process; not a cause but a law.”

“Every man of us has all the centuries in him.”