Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans were like brothersIn the brave days of old.