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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Personality is lower than partiality.

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'

The father of confederation is deadlock.

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

Above all nations is humanity.

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.