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

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.

Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.