Books, like friends, should be few, and well chosen.
Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser
by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into
disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books
serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind.--FULLER.
BREVITY.--Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and
outward flourishes.--SHAKESPEARE.
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.--FENELON.
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.
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