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

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

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

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

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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. 

Language is the archives of history.

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

Words pay no debts.

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.

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

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