Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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.

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

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

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

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

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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

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

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.