The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
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The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart
as much as in the language.
[Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et
dans le coeur comme dans le langage.]

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is read more

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time,
place, and company.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very
gesture.