Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

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

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.