212 Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.

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

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.