Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet.… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I believe in God, not because the Bible tells me that he is, but because my heart tells me so; and the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I believe that fallen creatures perish, perish for ever, for only good can live, and good has not been theirs; but how… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in… — 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
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
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality. — 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
