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

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

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

Words pay no debts.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

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.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. 

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

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.