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

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.