When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself.
Thomas B. MacaulayTemple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Thomas B. MacaulayMen are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas B. MacaulayI shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe 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.
Thomas B. Macaulay