Words, are like the pixels on a computer screen. The more pixels there are, the more refined the image. As with words, the more words at your disposal, the sharper your thought can be.

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

When words are all you have, much gets left unsaid...

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.