A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
But thou, through good and evil, praise and blame, Wilt not thou love me for myself alone? Yes, thou wilt love me… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim… If, like those of Rochefoucault,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? And wherefore doth… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
