More from Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1. To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
  2. Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
  3. Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
  4. Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
  5. The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
  6. She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast s…
  7. Ye diners-out from whom we guard our spoons.
  8. She [the Catholic Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

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