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
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready… — 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
Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look… — 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
It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too… — 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
I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my… — 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
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
