The only victory over love is flight.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

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

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

Men, in general, are but great children.