John Morley
6 quotes.
Quotes by John Morley
- It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
- Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it.
- The great successes of the world have been affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial.
- The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have.
- We all know that the secret of breakdown and wreck is seldom so much an insufficient knowledge of the route, as imperfect discipline of the will.
- You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.