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).