Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.