A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. — 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… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object;… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral… — 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
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not… — 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… — 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
Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her… — 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
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
Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, 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
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
Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according… — 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
Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that… — 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
That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness,… — 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
