Quotes from Charles Mackay

Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men!

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.

There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

Some love to roam o'er the dark sea's foam, Where the shrill winds whistle free.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

A company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is.

In the mean time, innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere. They soon received the name of Bubbles, the most appropriate that imagination could devise.

Religious matters have been purposely excluded as incompatible with the limits prescribed to the present work; a mere list of them would alone be sufficient to occupy a volume.

A traveller on a dusty road ?Strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up, ?And grew into a tree. Love sought its shade at evening-time, ?To breathe its early vows; And Age was pleased, in heights of noon, ?To bask beneath its boughs. The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, ?The birds sweet music bore— It stood a glory in its place, ?A blessing evermore.

Toda era tem sua loucura peculiar; algum plano, projeto ou fantasia em que mergulha, estimulada pelo amor do ganho, pela necessidade de emoção ou pela simples força da imitação. Se tudo isso falhar, ela ainda assim possui uma loucura, a que é incitada por causas políticas ou religiosas, ou por ambas combinadas. (from O mundo assombrado pelos demônios: A ciência vista como uma vela no escuro by Carl Sagan, Charles Mackay)

Some in clandestine companies combine; Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line; With air and empty names beguile the town, And raise new credits first, then cry 'em down; Divide the empty nothing into shares, And set the crowd together by the ears. – Defoe

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political of religious causes, or both combined.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Men of thought and men of action, clear the Way!

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.