It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.
Thomas B. MacaulayOur estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
Thomas B. Macaulay