Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

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.

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

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.