Goldwin Smith (13 August 1823 – 7 June 1910) was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada. Read full biography of Goldwin Smith →
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the... →
Personality is lower than partiality.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by... →
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion... →
Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly... →
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
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.
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
Above all nations is humanity.
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.
Goldwin Smith (13 August 1823 – 7 June 1910) was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada.