It is a luxury to be understood.

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.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

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

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.

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

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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.

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.