212 Quotes by Thomas Babington Macaulay

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

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

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.