Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. – Ambrose Bierce
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. – Ambrose Bierce

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. – Ambrose Bierce
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. – Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce
Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce
Patience is better than wisdom: an ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. All men praise patience, but few enough can practise it; it is a medicine which is good for all diseases, and therefore every old woman recommends it; but it is not every garden that grows the herbs to make it with. – Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892), “On Patience” (John Ploughman)