Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

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

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.