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

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.