Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.
Thomas B. MacaulayThat is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas B. MacaulayWe hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
Thomas B. Macaulay