More from Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1. The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
  2. A man who has never looked on Niagra has but a faint idea of a cataract; and he who has not read Barere's Memoirs may be said not to know w…
  3. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
  4. There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.
  5. We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigi…
  6. Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
  7. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each…
  8. The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

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