The tyranny of a strong mind makes us rage, but the tyranny of a mean one is altogether insufferable.

The cruelty of a Cromwell can be forgotten more easily than the cant of a Macaulay.

When we read certain lines we go into a blaze, and that fire will burn till it has burnt every opposition out.

In his essay on Milton, Macaulay having written much bombast on the English Revolution, introduces this characteristic sentiment: "One part of the Empire there was, so unhappily circumstanced, that at that time its misery was necessary to our happiness and its slavery to our freedom." For insolence this would be hard to beat.

Let it be noted well.