The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.