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

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

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

What a glut of books! Who can read them? As already, we shall have a vast chaos and confusion of books; we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.

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

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

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.

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

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

It is a luxury to be understood.

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

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.