Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

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. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Once you label me you negate me.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.