Against the censurers of brevity. – Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.
Something brief actually shows depth of thought. But to the novice and untrained eye Brevity can look like un-matured and undeveloped thought, which is not the case
