Aphorisms & Fragments

The compressed form of thought — maxims, epigrams, and fragments from Nietzsche, Wilde, and Bierce’s savagely funny Devil’s Dictionary.

Wisdom (and wit) in a single line

In this collection

• Canzonet
• By False Pretenses
• Philosophers Three
• The Moonlit Road
• Aspirants Three
• Y'e Foe to Cathaye
• The No Case
• A Lifted Finger
• A Valuable Suggestion
• Famine's Realm
• The Secret of Macarger's Gulch
• Slickens
• Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits
• A Career in Letters
• Athanasia
• Poetry and Prison
• Metempsychosis
• The Seeker and the Sought
• Aspiration
• The Writer and the Tramps
• The American Invasion
• The Nightside of Character
• The Noser and the Note
• An Eton Kit-Cat
• Fragment on Sensibility
• Lines Written in Friars'-Carse Hermitage
• Versicles on Sign-Posts
• Elegiac Verse
• Poetic Aphorisms
• Fragment: ‘what Men Gain Fairly'

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