When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
To be believed make the truth unbelievable.
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.