The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression:
the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.--_Alfred Bougeart._
Oratory, like the Drama, abhors lengthiness; like the Drama, it must be
kept doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy.
Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should
be produced on the audience, become blemishes.--_Bulwer-Lytton._