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

It is a luxury to be understood.

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.

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

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

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.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

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

Words pay no debts.

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.

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

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.