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

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.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

All I can say is if one was tea, the other coffee. If one was smoke, the other cigar. There is absolutely nothing in common between them except they both fought to win.

Adrian Clayborn is somebody that relentlessly brings that attitude, energy, and toughness.

Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.

Industry has annexed thereto the fairest fruits and the richest rewards.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

We are not old unless we desire to be.

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.