There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.