Logan Pearsall Smith was asked shortly before his death whether he had found any meaning in life. “Yes,” he replied, “there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters — to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
— The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes (ed. Clifton Fadiman)
Philosophically, I can agree with that. Semantically, though, I think I’d like my word chimes to resonate more like the Corinthian Bells, or maybe the Quartal Basso Profundo.