Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas B. MacaulayAnd how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
Thomas B. MacaulayIf any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of
Thomas B. Macaulay