We must have the real thing before we can have a science of a thing. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
You cannot reason people into loving those whom they are not drawn to love; they cannot reason themselves into it; and there… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. — 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
