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.

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.

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.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

What will he then do unto his name whereby we are called? ...of these things have I asked.

If someone is passed out they're not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

Music is really something that makes people whole.

Instead of sending guns, send books. Instead of sending weapons, send teachers.

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

In the end, we know God as unknown.

I never write with particular actors in mind.