The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. — 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
