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

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.