Devil Take The Hindmost by Edward Chancellor (pg. 136)

A letter in the Times stressed the cynicism of the speculators: “There is not a single dabbler in scrip who does not steadfastly believe–first, that a crash sooner or later, is inevitable; and, secondly, that he himself will escape it. When the luck turns, and the crack play is sauve qui peut, or devil take the hindmost, no one fancies that the last mail train from Panic station will leave him behind. In this, as in other respects, ‘Men deem all men mortal but themselves.'”