And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas B. MacaulayAll the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.
Thomas B. MacaulayIn that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.
Thomas B. Macaulay