Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!
Thomas B. MacaulayThere were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen.
Thomas B. MacaulayIn truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
Thomas B. Macaulay