“The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.Thomas Carlyle
“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay)
“She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul’s.Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay)