Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

If it's too silly to be said, it can always be sung.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.