Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
James Anthony FroudeI cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
James Anthony FroudeEnglish character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
James Anthony Froude