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

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

Above all nations is humanity.

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.

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?