Whether the work proves useful to India or not, it has been of great use, I feel and know, to my own mind.
[In October 1854, Macaulay writes to my mother: "I cannot but be pleased to find that, at last, the Code on which I bestowed the labour of two of the best years of my life has had justice done to it.

Had this justice been done sixteen years ago, I should probably have given much more attention to legislation, and much less to literature than I have done.
I do not know that I should have been either happier or more useful than I have been."] Ever yours affectionately T.B.MACAULAY..