The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget — John Morley Copy Share Image
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. — John Morley Copy Share Image
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter… — John Morley Copy Share Image
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from… — John Morley Copy Share Image
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. — John Morley Copy Share Image
“It is worth while to take the pains to find out the best way of doing a given task,…'to scorn delight and live laborious… — John Morley Copy Share Image
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to… — John Morley Copy Share Image
