Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. — 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
