Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. – John Morley
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John Morley
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. – John Morley
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders. – John Morley
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act. – W. Winwood Reade