Our academical Pharisees. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

I would not give up the keys to the granary, because I know that, by doing so, I should turn scarcity into a famine.

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

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the revolution of 1688 is this, that it was our last revolution. Several generations have now passed away since any wise and patriotic Englishman has meditated resistance to the established government. In all honest and reflecting minds there is a conviction, daily strengthened by experience, that the means of effecting every improvement which the constitution requires may be found within the constitution itself.