A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. – Ambrose Bierce
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. – Ambrose Bierce

A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. – Ambrose Bierce
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. – Ambrose Bierce
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly. – Ambrose Bierce
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. – George Berkeley