James Anthony Froude Quotes about Character

Human improvement is from within outward.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Character, Improvement, Humans

James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.378, The Minerva Group, Inc.

English 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

Character, Thinking, Self

James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude

Dream, Book, Character

James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.4