Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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

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

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

The chief merit of language is clearness, and we know that nothing detracts so much from this as do unfamiliar terms.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.