Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is the archives of history.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.