John Morley

“Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.”

“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.”

“In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.”

“The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.”

“There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.”

“Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.”

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

“You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.”

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

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

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

“Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.”

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