Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why utter them?

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

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

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

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

Words pay no debts.

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

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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.