“Don’t write merely to be understood. Write

so that you cannot possibly be

misunderstood.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves. —Joseph Addison, The themselves. —Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 416.

• Men suppose their reason has

command over their words; still it

happens that words in return

exercise authority on reason. —

Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon.

• A blow with a word strikes deeper

than a blow with a sword. —Robert

Burton, The anatomy of melancholy

I.2.4.4.

• Give me the right word and the right

accent and I will move the world. —

Joseph Conrad, A personal record.

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• He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. —Joseph Conrad, A power of sense. —Joseph Conrad, A personal record.

• Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. —Sir H. Davy.

• Words ... so innocent and powerless

as they are, as standing in a

dictionary, how potent for good and

evil they become, in the hands of evil they become, in the hands of

one who knows how to combine

them! —Nathaniel Hawthorne,

American Notebooks, 1841-1852.

• Expression is the dress of thought, and stillAppears more decent as more suitable. A vile Conceit in pompous words express'd Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd For diff'rent styles with diff'rent subjects sort, As sev'ral garbs with country, town, and court. Some by old words to fame have made Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense.—Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711)