In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

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

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.

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

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?

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