All Quotes by Charles Mackay
“The king can drink the best of wine — Betwixt my lord the king and me?”
“If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Cleon hath a million acres,— ne’er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a palace, — in a cottage I.”
“Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young.”
“There’s a good time coming, boys! Wait a little longer.”
“The smallest effort is not lost, Each struggle lessens human woe.”
“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.”