Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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. 

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

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.

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.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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