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

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

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.

Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. 

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

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. 

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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.

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

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

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.

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

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