Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

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

Words pay no debts.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.