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.
Charles MackayThere 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.
Charles MackayWater is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world.
Charles MackayThe study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man is so wise but that he may learn some wisdom from his past errors, either of thought or action, and no society has made such advances as to be capable of no improvement from the retrospect of its past folly and credulity.
Charles Mackay