This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.