Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

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.

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

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Words pay no debts.

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

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

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