Thomas B. Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness…

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country…

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion…

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that…

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising…

The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would…

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines…

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish…

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good…

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition…

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem…

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a…