It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old. - Thomas Babington Macaulay