By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Names are everything.
I never quarrel with actions. 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.