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?

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.

Above all nations is humanity.

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

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.

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

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.