Goldwin Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.”

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

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

“There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.”

“It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.”

“Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.”

“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.”

“Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.”

“The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.”

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