All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I think my sudden love for this girl is a truer expression of myself than anything.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. when there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Even four harnessed horses cannot bring imprudent words back into the mouth.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

He ate and drank the precious words, his spirit grew robust; he knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was dust.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!