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

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

- 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

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

- Goldwin Smith

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

- Goldwin Smith

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sec…

- 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

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.

- Goldwin Smith