• The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

    Thomas B. Macaulay: The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
    "On John Dryden" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1828.