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.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

He who hates vice hates men.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

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

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

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.

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