A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.