[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.