To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
Thomas B. MacaulayIn after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.
Thomas B. MacaulayScotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.
Thomas B. Macaulay