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

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

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Words pay no debts.

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

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