Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Man is more powerful than matter.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

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.