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
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
We live merely on the crust or rind of things.
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.