In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope
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! Sir Walter Scott
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words. Josh Billings
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords Robert Louis Stevenson
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson