Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Under this roof are the heads of the family of Rothschild - a name famous in every capital of Europe and every division of the globe. If you like, we shall divide the United States into two parts, one for you, James [Rothschild], and one for you, Lionel [Rothschild]. Napoleon will do exactly and all that I shall advise him.