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

Words pay no debts.

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

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

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.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

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.

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

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

Language is the archives of history.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.