Ambrose Bierce
  • Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

  • Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

  • Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

  • Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

  • 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.