Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.
The opinion of the great body of the reading public is very materially influenced even by the unsupported assertions of those who assume a right to criticize.
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.
Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.
There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.
Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.
The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.