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

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.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

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

Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

Above all nations is humanity.

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?