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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

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

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

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.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

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

The only authors whom I acknowledge as American are the journalists. They indeed are not great writers, but they speak the language of their countrymen, and make themselves heard by them. 

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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

Words pay no debts.

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