“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.”

“Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.”

“Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.”

“Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain…. at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.”

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”

“Even common passions… will put him up to his mettle.”

“It’s the passion that keeps me in this industry, no amount of money could make me do what I do if I didn’t have passion.”

“There is usually enough of everything on the table except cream.”

“Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein.”

“How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candour in a story of early manhood which leaves out of account the home-sickness for nursery morality, the regrets and resolutions of amendment, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity.”