3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay 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 tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.