Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pa…

- Thomas B. Macaulay

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces, and gardens and fine dinners, and wine, and coaches, and beautiful clothes,…

- Thomas B. Macaulay

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote desce…

- Thomas B. Macaulay

History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders o…

- Thomas B. Macaulay

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

- Thomas B. Macaulay

More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

- Thomas B. Macaulay