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.—­Steele.

Business.—­That which is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.  —­Izaak Walton.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.—­Bovee.

Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.—­Duke of Wellington.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.—­Swift.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business.  A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act.  A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action.  He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.—­Helps.

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a thing, his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.  I should not like to be merely a great doctor, a great lawyer, a great minister, a great politician—­I should like to be also something of a man.—­Theodore Parker.

Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it.—­Tacitus.

The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one’s consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour—­never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other.—­Sismondi.

Few people do business well who do nothing else.—­Chesterfield.

To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment.  For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application, “No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do.”—­Steele.