A gift book organized into two parts:

Part I: 3300-word introduction that includes:

• detailed examination of this most concise form of the literary arts.
• differentiation of aphorisms from adages, epigrams, maxims, platitudes, and other types of quotable assertions.
• profiles of the most prolific modern aphorists (e.g., Ambrose Bierce, Antonio Porchia, Eric Hoffer, Stanislaw Lec, James Richardson, James Guida, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and others).

Part II: 400 original aphorisms, with twenty-five B/W original illustrations.