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

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

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

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.