Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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