Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

It is a bad thing to be wealthy when one is young

Happiness is a heritic that wanders about, and nowhere feels herself a stranger.

There is something appalling about old age!

Finite quantities are incomprehensible when compared with the infinite.

I have known men, who could see clearly the mediocrity of their talents and the nullity of their career, who were still infatuated with their own persons.

There is, in truth, no infallible method for obtaining wealth.

I have seen the terrible power of gold. I have seen a man lose his reason over a heap of yellow metal, and I have seen mortal faces at the gaming-table that would drive an artist to despair.

You're so lucky! You never have a losing day. If you were to stake your whole pile on red, the card would still be red rather than black.

The Queen of Spades