Brevity in writing is what charity is to all other virtues—righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.—Sydney Smith.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.—Southey.
The more an idea is developed the more concise becomes its expression; the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.—Alfred Bougeant.
The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.—Fénelon.
With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.
—Pindar.
Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its parentage.—H.W. Shaw.
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies.—George Herbert.
When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.—Steele.
Business.—That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.—Izaak Walton.
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.—Bovee.