244 Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

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.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.