Ages Quote by Goldwin Smith

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

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

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

— Goldwin Smith

Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.'

— Goldwin Smith

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

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

— Goldwin Smith

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

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

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

— Goldwin Smith

Above all nations is humanity,

— Goldwin Smith

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

— Goldwin Smith

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