Posterity is grateful if our contemporaries are not. - Charles Mackay

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.

his temper was so impetuous, his indolence so invincible, and his vicious habits so deeply rooted, that he made no progress.

During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity