Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

All religions have been made by men.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

Half of the people in the world are below average.