Crossword-Solution: PITHIEST 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

But Costantini was in Mantua; and this sonnet, which he had written for his master, remains Tasso's truest epitaph, the pithiest summary of a life pathetically tragic in its adverse fate-- Friends, this is Tasso, not the sire but son; For he of human offspring had no heed, Begetting for himself immortal seed Of art, style, genius and instruction.

Chapin, that the pithiest eulogy ever pronounced upon the first editor of America, was pronounced in this very room and from that very platform by the man who at that time was the first of living editors in this country, when he said that he honored the memory of Benjamin Franklin because he was a journeyman printer who did not drink, a philosopher who wrote common sense, and an office-holder who did not steal.

His works are also full of the pithiest and most memorable sayings, such as the following:-- “Genius is an immense capacity for taking pains.” “Do the duty which lies nearest thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.” “History is a mighty drama, enacted upon the theatre of time, with suns for lamps, and eternity for a background.” “All true work is sacred.

His successor in influence was William Cobbett (1762-1835), son of an agricultural labourer, and one of the pithiest of all English writers.

The 'fairest and openest of them all' is the man who says, 'I am of the number of the Elect'; God tells the Elect what is right: therefore if you want to know what is right, you have only to come to me.[363] Bentham is writing here in his pithiest style.