There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

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

Above all nations is humanity.

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 Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

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

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.