I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

Alas! In vain historians pry and probe: The same wind blows, and in the same live robe Truth bends her head to fingers curved cupwise; And with a woman's smile and a child's care Examines something she is holding there Concealed by her own shoulder from our eyes.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.