• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

    Thomas B. Macaulay: I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
    "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.