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.

Personality is lower than partiality.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

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

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

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