Who said “Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one…”?

“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”

“Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.”

“I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.”

“The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.”

“In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.”

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”

“A word too much always defeats its purpose.”

“Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.”