Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.