The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
James Anthony FroudeOur human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
James Anthony FroudeThe practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. Where we find a heroic life appearing as the uniform fruit of a particular mode of opinion, it is childish to argue in the face of fact that the result ought to have been different.
James Anthony Froude