As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Rothschild is the lord and master of the money markerts of the world and virtually lord and master of everything else.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.