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.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

I hope, or I could not live.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.