“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. ”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.”
“The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”
“If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention.”