Lord Macaulay Thomas Babington

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

It is the nature of man to overrate present evil and to underrate present good; to long for what he has not, and to be dissatisfied with what he has.

I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.