James Anthony Froude

“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”

“History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong.”

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

“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.”

“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”

“We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith.”

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.”

“The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.”

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“To go abroad is to discover that you are a provincial.”

“Society is a long-standing conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.”

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.”