Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.