A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.
James Anthony FroudeScience rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.
James Anthony FroudeThat which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.
James Anthony Froude