Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

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

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

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.

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

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

What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.

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

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.

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.