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

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

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.

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

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.

Language is the archives of history.

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 armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.