Words pay no debts.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

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.

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

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

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

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

What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.

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

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.

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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

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