Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. Thomas B. Macaulay More Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay More Quotes From Thomas B. Macaulay The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority. Thomas B. Macaulay intellectualorderlong Boswell is the first of biographers. Thomas B. Macaulay biographersfirsts Complete self-devotion is woman's part. Thomas B. Macaulay devotionself In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. Thomas B. Macaulay human-natureagefound Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down. Thomas B. Macaulay sectstolerationclamor Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. Thomas B. Macaulay emblemspietybeard All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings. Thomas B. Macaulay coveringliteraturefeelings This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. Thomas B. Macaulay miracleimaginationmind In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. Thomas B. Macaulay graceimaginationart The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate. Thomas B. Macaulay kismetaccidentsfate Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. Thomas B. Macaulay equal In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself. Thomas B. Macaulay examplechristianfiction Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances. Thomas B. Macaulay finesseadaptationmean The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women. Thomas B. Macaulay selfperfectmen At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. Thomas B. Macaulay graceclasscountry An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Thomas B. Macaulay acresutopiaearth Lars Porsena of Clusium Thomas B. Macaulay ninesufferinghouse Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear Thomas B. Macaulay dustheartlying Was none who would be foremost Thomas B. Macaulay behindsconfusionwould-be War is never lenient but where it is wanton; where men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge. This may be bad, but it is human nature; it is the clay as it came from the hands of the Potter. Thomas B. Macaulay hatefightingwar
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