Small faults notwithstanding, there is no one who has drawn a more vivid, or a more faithful, portrait of Erasmus than Anthony Froude.
Of Froude in his Oxford Chair it may fairly be said that in a short time he fulfilled a long time, and made more impression upon the under-graduates in a few months than Stubbs had made in as many years.

It was not so much the love of learning that he inspired, though the range of his studies was wide, as enthusiasm for history because it was the history of England.

His subjects were really English.

Erasmus knew England thoroughly, and would have been an Englishman if he could.

The Council of Trent failed to check the Reformation, and England without the Reformation would have been a different country, if not a province of Spain.