Kindle Notes & Highlights
there is love, I believe, which, as the Bible says, many waters cannot quench nor the floods drown … And such love is mine for my Nancy, and, I think, hers for me.’
Sophocles: ‘The happiest destiny is never to have been born; and the next best, by far, is to return, as swiftly as may be, to the bourn whence we came.’
What was unusual for this early phase of imperialism was Macaulay’s passionate belief in the duty of imperial rulers to govern in the best interests of the ruled.
