Henry Adams Quote

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (ed. BookRix, 2017) - ISBN: 9783736808676

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this ...

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this ...

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this ...

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this ...