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

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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

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

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

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. 

It is a luxury to be understood.