Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

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

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Poetry, Age, Genius

  "On Milton" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1825.

• What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Destiny, Men, Age

  "On Boswell's Life of Johnson" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1831.

• 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

  Imagination, Miracle, Mind

• Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Law, Genius, Cotton

• When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Discovery, Years, Law

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