Lord Macaulay Thomas Babington

The sweeter sound of woman's praise.

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

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

We see no reason for thinking that the opinions of the magistrate on speculative questions are more likely to be right than those of any other man. None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbors. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbors together is still smaller.

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.