As far as I'm concerned, it's true. The meaning of words lies not only in the words themselves, but in our attitude toward them, or we can say in how we use them—their application. A word may be a fine sounding word, of an unusual length, and very imposing from its learning and novelty, and yet in the connection in which it is introduced may be quite pointless and irrelevant. It is not pomp or pretension, but the adaption of the expression to the idea, that clenches a writer's meaning: as it is not the size or glossiness of the materials, but their being fitted each to its place, that gives strength to the arch; or as the pegs and nails are as necessary to the support of the building as the larger timbers, and more so than the mere showy, unsubstantial ornaments. There is no logical or intrinsic relation between the form of a word and the entity it refers to. The arbitrariness enables us to interpret the meaning of words from our attitude and affection.