The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for. You never mean a single word you say. There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Names are everything.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second.