All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Mirth is God's medicine.

Men can make an idol of the Bible.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.