John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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