Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Ambrose Bierce

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."