127 Quotes by James Anthony Froude

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

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.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.

It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.