Quote #26
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
More from John Morley
- A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
- Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
- Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- Every man of us has all the centuries in him.
- The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature-the idea of eternal punishment.
- No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
- Literature-the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
- Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.