“Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.” Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
“A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.” TwoRoomsSilenceMinutesMonthsDrawingMagazinesDustRecognitionPopularityShelvesEssaysNoveltyColumnsForthcoming Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“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 ancestors.” IfsI CanCenturyBearsSucceedDignityAncestorNineteenth CenturyReproach Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” LastsYoungNovelProduceTablesSatisfiedFashionableYoung Ladies Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.” PeopleIfsLawEnemyCrushedNo Hope Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.” EvilProduceCures Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.” MenShouldPhilosophyWholeAimPlatonic Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.” MenWorldSocialSoundKnownCleanCoreFabricAlas Author:Louis Sullivan
“Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.” MenSelfRecognitionSelf Recognition Author:Louis Sullivan