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

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

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

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.

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

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

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.

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

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

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.