Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.