It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

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

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

The War That Will End War.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.