“He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.”

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed.

Attack! Always Attack!

He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself.

It is … impossible to keep one’s excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted.

On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact.

Then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see.

But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Keep eternity before the children.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.