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Famous Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes
“The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.”
“The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.”
“It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.”
“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
“Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.”
“The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.”
“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”
“In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.”