Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.
Thomas B. MacaulayMen naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.
Thomas B. MacaulayA man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.
Thomas B. MacaulayI have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.
Thomas B. Macaulay