Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. – Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live. – Ambrose Bierce
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow. – Ambrose Bierce
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas