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, …

- Goldwin Smith

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

- Goldwin Smith

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

- Goldwin Smith

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

- Goldwin Smith

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

- Goldwin Smith

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.

- Goldwin Smith

The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

- Goldwin Smith

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, an…

- Goldwin Smith

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the politica…

- Goldwin Smith