Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. He must… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during… — 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
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
