Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them.

It is with words as with sunbeams--the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".