In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — 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
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest… — 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
The impenetrable stupidity of Prince George (son-in-law of James II) served his turn. It was his habit, when any news was told… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride… — 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
