Playing card

"Paciencia y barajar."

"It is explained in this essay that the whole of the Tarot is based upon the Tree of Life, and that the Tree of Life is always cognate with Tetragrammaton."

"With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves."

"He's a sure card."

"The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose."

"You tell me of the French playing at whist; why, I found it established when I was last here. I told them they were very good to imitate us in anything, but that they had adopted the two dullest things we have, Whist and Richardson's Novels."

"Cards were at first for benefits designed, Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind."

"A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game."

"Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Hélas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous préparez!"