Impatience never commanded success.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”)

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

God in the whizzing of a pleasant wind Shall march upon the tops of mulberry trees.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.