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.
Goldwin SmithAmerica is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Goldwin SmithWho 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?
Goldwin SmithCanada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'
Goldwin Smith