Who said “The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess;…”?

“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!”

“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”

“I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.”

“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.”

“All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream.”

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

“That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.”

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”

“Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.”

“A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.”