Wonder on till truth make all things plain. Mid. N.'s Dream.
"Wonder," says Aristotle, "is the first cause of philosophy." This is quite as true in the progress of the individual as in that of the concrete mind; and the constant aim of philosophy is to destroy its parent. Bulwer Lytton.
Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true book. Not like a dead city of stones, yearly crumbling, yearly needing repair; more like a tilled field, but then a spiritual field; like a spiritual tree, let me rather say, it stands from year to year, and from age to age (we have books that already number some one hundred and fifty human ages); and yearly comes its new produce of leaves (commentaries, deductions, philosophical, political systems, or were it only sermons, pamphlets, journalistic essays), every one of which is talismanic and thaumaturgic, for it can persuade men. Carlyle.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Carlyle.
Woodman, spare that tree! / Touch not a single bough! / In youth it sheltered me, / And I'll protect it now. G. P. Morris.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Emerson.
Words are but poor interpreters in the realms 5 of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power. H. R. Haweis.
Words are but wind, but seein's believin'. Sc. Pr.
Words are fools' pence. Pr.
Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words. Goethe.