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

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. 

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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.

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

Language is the archives of history.

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

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.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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

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

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