James Anthony Froude

Historian

1818-04-23

Books by James Anthony Froude

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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.
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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.
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We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
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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.
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The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
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To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.
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Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
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Our human laws are but copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
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Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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Mistakes are often the best teachers.
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