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

Personality is lower than partiality.

Above all nations is humanity.

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.

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.

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.

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

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

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.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.