Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
Thomas B. MacaulayLogicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.
Thomas B. Macaulay