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.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

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 characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.