127 Quotes by James Anthony Froude

Beautiful is old age—beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.