Nurture your mind with great thoughts

Rothschild is the Lord and Master of the money markets of the world, and of course virtually Lord and Master of everything else. He literally held the revenues of Southern Italy in pawn, and Monarchs and Ministers of all countries courted his advice and were guided by his suggestions.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

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

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.