Ambrose Bierce
  • It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

  • Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

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

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

  • Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.