"We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences."
"When the style is fully formed if it has a sweet undersong we call it beautiful and the writer may do what he likes in words or syntax."