Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes, and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

We don't sufficiently consider that words are deeds.

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.

Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.

"I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.