The most valuable of all talents
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson
Baltasar Gracian
Good things, when short, are twice as good. Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Brevity
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. William Shakespeare,Hamlet