The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

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.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

The president should not be able to make me or you ever worried about what's going to happen in our personal life.

Mars is not an aesthetic God.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.