But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

Above all nations is humanity.

The father of confederation is deadlock.

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

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

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

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