Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

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

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

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.

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

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.