People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe Saviour of mankind Himself, in whose blameless life malice could find no act to impeach, has been called in question for words spoken.
Thomas B. MacaulayFree trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
Thomas B. MacaulayRe: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Thomas B. Macaulay