Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

No brain at all, some of them [people], only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake, and they don't Think.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.