Essays, Critical And Miscellaneous Quotes

“It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, to see the symptoms of vitality dissappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.”
― T. Babington Macaulay, Essays: Critical and Miscellaneous