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

It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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

It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

Language is the archives of history.

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

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.

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

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.