“It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.”

“When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.”

“When I pronounce the word Future,the first syllable already belongs to the past.When I pronounce the word Silence,I destroy it.”

“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”

“When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.”

“It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.”