In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

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• Ambrose Bierce:

  Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  The covers of this book are too far apart.

• Ambrose Bierce:

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

• Ambrose Bierce:

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

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern sch

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

• Ambrose Bierce:

  Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.