Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction... - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

"The covers of this book are too far apart."

"Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of."