It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

It is impossible to translate the poets. Can you translate music?

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

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

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

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.