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

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.