It 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. MacaulayPerhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Thomas B. MacaulayIn the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.
Thomas B. Macaulay