Thomas Babington Macaulay

"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."

"He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes."

"I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ances…"

"I conceive that the Act is good in itself. ... The strongest reason...for passing it is the nature of the opposition which it has experienced. The organs of that opposition repeated every day that the…"

"That noble Lord is of opinion, not only that we ought to exclude Natives from office, but that even by encouraging them to study the arts and learning of Europe, we are preparing the way for the utter…"

"He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked."

"Joe Hume talked to me very earnestly about the necessity of an union of Liberals. He said much about Ballot and the Franchise. I told him that I could easily come to some compromise with him and his f…"

"I have not the Chancellor’s encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop."