The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
[Lat., Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam.]

Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Don Chaucer. well of English undefyled
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies read more

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

He has strangled
His language in his tears.

He has strangled
His language in his tears.