Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce

Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. – Ambrose Bierce
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. – Ambrose Bierce
A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce