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.

The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

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.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is the archives of history.

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

Words pay no debts.

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

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.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

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

Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.