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

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.

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

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.

Words pay no debts.

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

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

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.

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.

Language is the archives of history.

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.