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

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

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.

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.

It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

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.

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.

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

Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

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

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

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