The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.