We call an intention good which is right in itself, but the action is good, not because it contains within it some good, but because it issues from a good intention.

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.