Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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.

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

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

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

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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.

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

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

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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.