Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

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.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.