James Anthony Froude Quotes

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

The secret of a person’s nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn’t been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Human improvement is from within outward.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.