“You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.” — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
