Brevity is the soul of wit
The art of expressing oneself in the compact, terse language is a great asset in life. Where one word would do, why should a person use two? Verbosity and circumlocution warp one’s meaning and fail to have the desired effect, whereas a brief, precise and compressed statement seldom fails to go home. Bacon—the great master of brevity and compression — has left in his handful of essays a store of wisdom which other writers could not give even in several volumes. Hitting the nail on the head is a sure road to success than beating about the bush. A simple, straightforward, and concise speech or writing is always preferable to a display of empty verbiage. Teachers, lawyers, statesmen, philosophers—all those who have a real message to impart-are careful to choose the right word and as few words as possible. The words of the wise men are few but pregnant with thought.
