The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.