Ambrose Bierce

Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we read more

Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.

A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.