Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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

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

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

Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he.

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.

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.