Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.
The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
