Language is the archives of history.

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.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

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

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

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

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

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

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. 

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

Words pay no debts.

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.