Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.

I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet... They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.

We move between two darknesses.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

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

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.