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

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

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

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.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

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

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

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

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

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. 

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.