James Anthony Froude Law Quotations

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Minds vary in sensitiveness and in self-power, as bodies do in susceptibility of attraction and repulsion. When, when shall we learn that they are governed by laws as inexorable as physical laws, and that a man can as easily refuse to obey what has power over him as a steel atom can resist the magnet?

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.

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.

True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.