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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is the archives of history.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Words pay no debts.

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

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

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

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.

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

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.