Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life