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

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.

Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully.

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

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

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

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

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

God never sent a messenger save with the language of his folk, that he might make the message clear for them.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

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

Man is the one name belonging to every nation upon earth: there is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to all.