Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. 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. The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
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