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.

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.