Great 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. MacaulayHistory distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.
Thomas B. MacaulayThis is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
Thomas B. Macaulay