It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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.

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

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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.