Talk:John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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• Literature—the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
  • Burke.

• The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature—the idea of eternal punishment.
  • Vauvenargues.

• A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
  • Emerson (1884).

• The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
  • Address on Aphorisms (1887).

• Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
  • Life of Gladstone (1903).

• Every man of us has all the centuries in him.
  • Life of Gladstone (1903).

• No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
  • Critical Miscellanies. Robespierre (1908).