The father of confederation is deadlock.

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

Personality is lower than partiality.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

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

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

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.