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.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
Thomas B. MacaulayOur estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.
Thomas B. MacaulayIt was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.
Thomas B. Macaulay