I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.' — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
