History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James Anthony FroudeScience rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
James Anthony FroudeHigh original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.
James Anthony Froude