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.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

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

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

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?

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.