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Books by Thomas Babbington Macaulay

Quotes by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
“ Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. ”
“ The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little. ”
“ Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons. ”
“ Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be. ”
“ Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war,
And be your oriflamme today the helmet of Navarre. ”
“ An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. ”
“ The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. ”
“ He [Richard Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. ”
“ What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!—To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries! ”
“ That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. ”
“ Oh! wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north,
With your hands and your feet and your raiment all red?
And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout?
And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread? ”
“ I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. ”
“ It is odd that the last twenty-five years which have witnessed the greatest progress ever made in physical science — the greatest victories ever achieved by mind over matter — should have produced hardly a volume that will be remembered in 1900. ”
“ I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies. ”
“ I have not the Chancellor’s encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. ”
“ The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. ”
“ Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa. ”
“ A man who has never looked on Niagra has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barère's ''Memoirs'' may be said not to know what it is to lie. ”
“ She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul’s. ”
“ Out of his surname they have coined an epithet for a knave, and out of his Christian name a synonym for the Devil. ”
“ Reform, that we may preserve. ”
“ Soon fades the spell, soon comes the night;
Say will it not be then the same,
Whether we played the black or white,
Whether we lost or won the game? ”
“ Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good. ”
“ We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. ”
“ The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. ”
“ She [the Catholic Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. ”
“ The sweeter sound of woman’s praise. ”
“ The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. ”
“ Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here. ”
“ Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. ”
“ The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ”
“ To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. ”
“ It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern, --a class of persons Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect. ”
“ In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America. ”
“ In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. ”
“ Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. ”
“ There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years. ”
“ Intoxicated with animosity. ”
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