Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.
There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.