To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
From Thomas Babington Macaulay
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
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