Purer Quotes

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.