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

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

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

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

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. 

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it—yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more. Witness the decline of conversation. Only the Irish have remained incomparable conversationalists, maybe because technical progress has passed them by.

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

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

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.

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

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Language is the archives of history.