Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
Thomas B. MacaulayWe hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.
Thomas B. Macaulay