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
The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.
Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...
Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.
Thy plain and open nature sees mankind But in appearance, not what they are.
Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.