Thomas Babington Macaulay

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    The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    You’re a dreamer, Doc. Too much money is bad for dreamers.
    —John Thomas Neville. Jean Yarborough. Henry Morton (Guy Usher)

    He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

    In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)