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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
— Goldwin Smith
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
— Goldwin Smith
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
— Goldwin Smith
Personality is lower than partiality.
— Goldwin Smith
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
— Goldwin Smith
In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
— Natalie Jeremijenko
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
— Goldwin Smith
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
— Goldwin Smith
My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss.
— Priest Holmes
To name her is to sink her," he told me. "That which we name takes greater weight than the sea it displaces. Ask any shipwreck.
— Neal Shusterman
Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
— Idries Shah
That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself.
— Pandurang Shastri Athavale
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
— Goldwin Smith
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
— Goldwin Smith
The father of confederation is deadlock.
— Goldwin Smith
To be rather than to seem.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
— Goldwin Smith
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.
— Goldwin Smith
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
— Goldwin Smith
I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
— Goldwin Smith
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.
— Goldwin Smith
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
— Goldwin Smith
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
— Goldwin Smith
Above all nations is humanity.
— Goldwin Smith