I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

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.

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

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.

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

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