The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce: Meaningful Quotes

Brain — an apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something from the man who wishes to do something.

Reality — the dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.

Pantheism — the doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.

Hurry — the dispatch of bunglers.