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.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

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.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

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

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

Who 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?