Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.