I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence. James Anthony Froude More Quotes by James Anthony Froude More Quotes From James Anthony Froude I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness. James Anthony Froude long children thinking Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. James Anthony Froude sage fool selfish The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself. James Anthony Froude reflection clouds long Fear is the parent of cruelty. James Anthony Froude parent fear life Mistakes are often the best teachers. James Anthony Froude best-teacher mistake teacher Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality. James Anthony Froude immortality soul self Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country. James Anthony Froude men country ideas There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter. James Anthony Froude solitude Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. James Anthony Froude offense crime prison To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. James Anthony Froude ethos morality freedom Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it. James Anthony Froude age hands looks We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it. James Anthony Froude names home giving There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe. James Anthony Froude men two religion Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear. James Anthony Froude woe men children Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet? James Anthony Froude self law men That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation, I cannot helieve. We are not as we were. When Christianity was first published, the imagination of mankind presented the relation of heaven to earth very differently from what it does now. James Anthony Froude serious-person imagination heart Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting. James Anthony Froude eye knowing heart Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives. James Anthony Froude charity half giving Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself in theological language into the love of God. James Anthony Froude sacrifice religion firsts I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms. James Anthony Froude spiritual bird thinking
