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.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

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

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.

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

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.

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

Language is the archives of history.

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

Words pay no debts.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

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