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.

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

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.

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

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.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.