The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

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.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.

Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.