Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.