Brevity

Charles Spurgeon's Illustration Collection

Dr. Cotton Mather wrote over his study-door in large letters, Be Short. Callers upon ministers will please make a note of this; as also brethren who are lengthy at the prayer-meeting; Sunday-school teachers, in all their devotional exercises and addresses; speakers at public meetings, who have nothing to say; and ministers who are given to prosiness.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.

(2): (n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.