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

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

The father of confederation is deadlock.

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

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

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.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.