Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. – Ambrose Bierce

Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce
Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. – Ambrose Bierce
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. – Ambrose Bierce