“If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with
words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they
burn."—English Romantic poet Robert Southey (1774-1843), quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia
of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and
Modern, ed. Tryon Edwards (1908)
