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

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.