More from Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1. Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
  2. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which…
  3. It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
  4. There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and proper…
  5. A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who…
  6. He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
  7. His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.
  8. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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