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.

Words pay no debts.

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

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

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

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

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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

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

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

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

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.

Language is the archives of history.