Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Category Archive: Thomas Babington Macaulay
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.