What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

When you don't know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent's mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.

White has no positional equivalent for the centralized pawn.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!