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.

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.

Language is the house of being. In its home human beings dwell. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

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.

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

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

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

Speak and speed; the close mouth catches no flies.

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

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.

Slang is as old as speech and the congregating together of people in cities. It is the result of crowding and excitement and artificial life.

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.