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

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.

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

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?

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

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

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