Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

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

All lines of play which lead to the imprisonment of the bishop are on principle to be condemned.

One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat

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

As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to me is lifeless and void. The vitalizing factor is missing, and I can devise no plan of attack.

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!