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

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

Personality is lower than partiality.

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

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

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.

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