There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.