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.

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

We moralize among ruins.

A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.

And it is a singular truth that, though a man may shake off national habits, accent, manner of thinking, style of dress,--though he may become perfectly identified with another nation, and speak its language well, perhaps better than his own,--yet never can he succeed in changing his handwriting to a foreign style.