More From Thomas B. Macaulay
- "The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
- "Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
- "We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
More In Age
- "The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year."― Jane Fonda
- "I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution."― Tim Scott
- "Old age is fifteen years older than I am."― Oliver Wendell Holmes