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.

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.

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.

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 world was incomprehensibly intricate, and yet this forest made a simple sense in her heart that she felt nowhere else.

Do not hide your weakness for they grow and become powerful demons in the dark.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

Who controls the past controls the future who controls the present controls the past.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.