My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.