Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800-1859), American Essayist and Historian Quotes
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform, that you may preserve!
The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities.
Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays.
We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring
of life and the fruits of its Autumn.
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.
Death cometh soon or late;
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his gods?.
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!