Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

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 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.