I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit

Words are but the signs of ideas.

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Don't accustom yourself to use big words for little matters