An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault
It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault
It is a sad lament — the happiness you might have found if you had taken the path that still lies right there in front of you. – Robert Brault
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. – Robert Brault
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. – Edwin P. Whipple, lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Associa
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance. – Joseph Mazzini