Quotes by Goldwin Smith

“Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The father of confederation is deadlock.”

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

“'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.”

“'Rich by nature poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.”

“I am convinced that with the perfidy and rapine of Bonaparte no peace could be made, that the struggle with him was a struggle for the independence of all nations against the firmed and disciplined...”

“The Jew alone regard his race as superior to humanity, and looks forward not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them all and to its final ascendancy under the leadershi...”