Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.