Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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. 

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

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

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.