My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.