Thomas B. MacaulayA collection of 12 posts

Wisdom

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single f...

Poetry

As civilization advances poetry almost necessarily declines.

Poetry

Perhaps no person can be a poet or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsound...

Money

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

Knowledge

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good r...

Knowledge

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country ...

Government

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal or...

Freedom

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces and ...

Freedom

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident propositio...

Loneliness

The English Bible – a book which if everything else in our language shoul...