Ambrose Bierce

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad…

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her…

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth…

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage…

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art…

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks…

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly…

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly…

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and…

Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the…

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack…

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to…

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility…

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and…

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue…