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

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, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

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