James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude FRSEwas an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth23 April 1818
James Anthony Froude quotes about
Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.