“ It was nothing to be feted by Dukes and Earls, to receive golden presents, to be the theme of poetry and of eloquence, and the object of lovely woman's smiles; one more glory was wanting, and the Morphy has achieved — admitted to the sacred order and dubbed a Knight of the Press, here in Boston, where was erected the first printing press in America, we give him his golden spurs and bid him go on and conquer in the field of journalism! ”

“ The Brahmin invented chess; the King learned its hidden lesson, and the groaning people were relieved. But, in the process of time, the world has become so wise on this side the Atlantic as to find that Kings and all the rest are useless trumpery: "a church without a Bishop, and a State without a King," is our theory and our practice. We have neither king, nor queen, nor privileged order of knights nor clergy — all descend to the place of pawn or rather the pawns occupy all the high places. ”

“ One further moral must the game of chess convey; and so young America goes forth to show the world in precise conformity with the genius of our equal institutions, that Kings, Queens, Knights and Bishops are all mere puppets and playthings in the hands of one American citizen! ”