Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
Genuine belief ended with persecution. As soon as it was felt that to punish a man for maintaining an independent opinion was shocking and unjust, so soon a doubt had entered whether the faith established was unquestionably true.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, The Nemesis of Faith
Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, The Nemesis of Faith
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, "The Science of History", Representative Essays, February 5, 1864
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
