The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

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