Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.
Thomas B. MacaulayThe measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas B. MacaulayGreat minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.
Thomas B. MacaulayWe know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas B. Macaulay