As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
Thomas B. MacaulayCut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Thomas B. MacaulayByron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.
Thomas B. MacaulayWe hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
Thomas B. Macaulay