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
I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms. — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which… — 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
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
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
