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

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.

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

I live by good soup, and not on fine language.

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.

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.

It is a luxury to be understood.

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