Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

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

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.

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.

Above all nations is humanity.

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