127 Quotes by James Anthony Froude

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

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

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.