"... we English people delight in a moral — not a moral to be deduced or inferred, but a nice, rounded, little moral, in all the starch of set sentences, and placed just at the end."

"A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words."

"'Tis a strange mystery, the power of words ! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek, Hurrying with many meanings; or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart. Anger and fear are in them ; grief and joy Are on their sound ; yet slight, impalpable:— A word is but a breath of passing air."

"Words are transient, and vanish in the air as soon as spoken, and there can be no tenor of them . . . but when a thing is written, though every omission of a letter may not make a variance, yet, if such omission makes a word of another signification, it is fatal."

"Nay, gentlemen, do not quarrel about words."

"He says one thing, but he does another; it seems to me to be common sense to look at what is done, and not to what is said."

"We must judge of men's intentions by their acts, and not by expressions in letters, which are contrary to their acts."

"Words pass from men lightly."

"The words are like Jack in a Box, and nobody knows what to make of them."

"Rather commend yourself by your actions, than your expressions; one good action is worth twenty good expressions."

"Is not the Judge bound to know the meaning of all words in the English language; or if they are used technically or scientifically, to inform his own mind by evidence, and then to determine the meaning?"

"Qiue ad unumfinem loqunta sunt, non debent ad alium detorqueri: Those words which are spoken to one end, ought not to be perverted to another."

"Most of the disputes in the world arise from words."

"You phrase tormenting fantastic chorus, With strangest words at your beck and call."

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!""

"You [Pindar] who possessed the talent of speaking much without saying anything."

"Would you repeat that again, sir, for it soun's sae sonorous that the words droon the ideas?"

"Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird."

"Hold fast the form of sound words."

"Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way."

"As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things."

"I have not skill From such a sharp and waspish word as "No" To pluck the sting."

"I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. * * * * * In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more."

"But from sharp words and wits men pluck no fruit; And gathering thorns they shake the tree at root; For words divide and rend, But silence is most noble till the end."

"Dictum sapienti sat est."

"The arts Babblative and Scriblative."

"As the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, "Adsum!" and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master."

"Fair words enough a man shall find, They be good cheap: they cost right nought, Their substance is but only wind."

"The artillery of words."

"Satis eloquentiæ sapientiæ parum."

"Schnell fertig ist die Jugend mit dem Wort."

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel word" after another there is nothing left of the other."

"O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!"

"Inanis verborum torrens."

"Souvent d'un grand dessein un mot nous fait juger."

"We know not what we do When we speak words."

"He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink."

"They say * * * That, putting all his words together, 'Tis three blue beans in one blue bladder."

"A word spoken in good season, how good is it!"

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver."

"The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords."

"So all my best is dressing old words new."

"There is no magic in words."

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."

"Things were first made, then words."

"So spake those wary foes, fair friends in look, And so in words great gifts they gave and took, And had small profit, and small loss thereby."

"Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!"