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

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this-with work which you despise, which bores you and which the world does not need-this life is hell.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.