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.

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

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. 

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

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.

Language is the archives of history.

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

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

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

Words pay no debts.

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.