Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

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

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.