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

Under all speech that is good for anything, there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.

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

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

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.

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

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

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

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

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.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.