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

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

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

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

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

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

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.