127 Quotes by James Anthony Froude

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

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 essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

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

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 cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

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.