Words have a longer life than deeds.

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

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

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

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

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.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

The path of wisdom is for the meditative, and the path of work is for the active.

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

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

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

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

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

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

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

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

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.

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