Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

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.

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.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

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

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

Anyone who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

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

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

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

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