word-histories

Updated: July 13, 2026

We confound the little knowledge of word-histories which Latin gives with the far higher and subtler sentence-sense which makes the soul of one language so different from that of another, and training in which ought not to end until one has become more or less of a stylist and knows how to hew out modes of expressing his own individuality in great language.

G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene