A minute of success pays for years of failure.

Love is the energy of life.

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.