Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.