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.

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

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

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

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. 

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

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

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.

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

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

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

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