He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
Thomas B. MacaulayIt has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
Thomas B. MacaulayGreat minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
Thomas B. Macaulay