Thomas B. MacaulayThinkers

The Bible is a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Character is measured by what a man would do if he knew he never would be found out.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Habeas corpus is the most stringent curb that ever legisll\tion imposed on tyranny.

The Hippopotamus is the ugliest of the works of God.

John Dryden is a poet whose imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.

John Dryden is a poet whose imagination resembles the wings of an ostrich.

Language is the machine of the poet.

Persuasion is the sole object of oratory, not truth.

A Poet is, along with those who enjoy poetry, of a certain unsoundness of mind.