[…] independently of any marked increase of knowledge and multiplication of conceptions, as well as in connection with this, the instrument of expression is continually undergoing alteration for the better, by being applied to more varied and defter modes of use.
- Whitney (1875), a pag.114

[…] there is always and everywhere an antecedency of the conception to the expression. In common phrase, we first have our idea, and then get a name for it. This is so palpably true of all the more reflective processes that no one would think of denying it […].
- Whitney (1875), a pag.137