Zitat des Tages von Thomas Babington Macaulay:
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
Thomas Babington MacaulayFew of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas Babington MacaulayA single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
Thomas Babington MacaulaySuch night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
Thomas Babington MacaulayAs civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas Babington MacaulayThe measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington MacaulayHe had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Thomas Babington MacaulayAn acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
Thomas Babington MacaulayThe highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington MacaulayA good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Thomas Babington MacaulayMen are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Babington MacaulayTemple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Thomas Babington MacaulayWe know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington MacaulayThe best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Thomas Babington MacaulayPerhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas Babington MacaulayThe gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
Thomas Babington MacaulayShe thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
Thomas Babington Macaulay