More from Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1. The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
  2. To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
  3. Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.
  4. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
  5. Reform, that we may preserve.
  6. Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
  7. What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To re…
  8. Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.

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