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

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.