Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
Goldwin SmithThe mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
Goldwin SmithAmerica is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Goldwin SmithWho can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?
Goldwin Smith