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

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.

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.

In any situation, God's grace is sufficient.

Not new but so true:"It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.

Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

Numerals are images of amounts. But the amounts they represent are real.

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.