Cant is properly a double-distilled lie; the second power of a lie.—Carlyle.
If a gentleman be to study any language, it ought to be that of his own country.—Locke.
In language the unknown is generally taken for the magnificent.—Richard Grant White.
He who has a superlative for everything, wants a measure for the great or small.—Lavater.
Inaccurate writing is generally the expression of inaccurate thinking.—Richard Grant White.
To acquire a few tongues is the labor of a few years; but to be eloquent in one is the labor of a life.—Anonymous.
Words and thoughts are so inseparably connected that an artist in words is necessarily an artist in thoughts.-Wilson Flagg.
It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression.—Campbell.
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas.—Macaulay.
He who writes badly thinks badly. Confusedness in words can proceed from nothing but confusedness in the thoughts which give rise to them.—Cobbett.