His spiritual difficulties fell away from him, and he found that the Church in which he had been born was comprehensive enough for him, as for others.

He was not called upon to solve problems which had baffled the subtlest intellects, and would baffle them till the end of time.

Religion could be made practical, and not until its practical lessons had been exhausted was it necessary to go farther afield.

"Do the duty that lies nearest you," said Goethe, who knew art and science, literature and life, as few men have known them.
Froude was never idle, and never at a loss for amusement.

Although he wrote regularly, and his love of reading was a passion, he had the keenest enjoyment of sport and expeditions, of country air and sights and sounds, of natural beauty and physical exercise.