If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.