Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.