Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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. 

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.

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

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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.

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

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

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

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

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