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.

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.

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.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is the archives of history.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

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

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.