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

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.

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.

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.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

Personality is lower than partiality.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.