Quotes By Thomas B. Macaulay

The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Reform, that we may preserve.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.