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

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

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.

Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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. 

It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?

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

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

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

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