Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.