Quote #21

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

More from John Morley

  1. 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.
  2. Literature-the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
  3. In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
  4. The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature-the idea of eternal punishment.
  5. The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
  6. Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
  7. There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.
  8. A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

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