Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost — Thomas B. Macaulay
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Thomas B. Macaulay
A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his — Thomas B. Macaulay
Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined — Thomas B. Macaulay
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, — Thomas B. Macaulay
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents. — Thomas B. Macaulay