Thomas B. Macaulay Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which even rigid moralists but faintly censure. Succeeding generations change the fashion of their morals with the fashion of their hats and their coaches; take some other kind of wickedness under their patronage, and wonder at the depravity of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Fashion, Age, Generations

• We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Ridiculous, Morality, Fit

  "On Moore's Life of Lord Byron" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

• 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 B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

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