Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
The father of confederation is deadlock.
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.
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.