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.

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

The father of confederation is deadlock.

The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

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

Personality is lower than partiality.

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.