“Above all nations is humanity.” — Goldwin Smith Quote

Above all nations is humanity.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

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

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

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, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

I wake up every morning and thank the lord above and just thank him for... being able to do what I do.

I painted billboards above every candy store in Brooklyn.

Mr. Putin presents himself as a czar - and like any czar, he fears revolution above all else.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.