Ambrose Bierce

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is read more

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.