Top 21 Quotes by James Anthony Froude

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

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

Human improvement is from within outward.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.