Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

The covers of this book are too far apart.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against one’s fellows.

MIND: A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Definition of a bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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

Brain: An apparatus with which we think that we think.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.