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

#cottage #desire #full #i #king

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#found #knew #man #measure #never

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#maxim #nothing #useless

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #constitution #despot #good #infinitely

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#except #make #mint #money #nothing

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#hopes #law #laws #people #power

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#enjoy #even #mind #perhaps #person

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#coming #evidently #may #recede #single

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #than #utopia

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #die #facing #fathers #fearful