Ambrose Gwinett Bierce Curable Quotations

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off --to Missolonghi.