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

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

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and read more

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

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.

Language is fossil poetry.

Language is fossil poetry.

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the
signs of ideas.

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the
signs of ideas.

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.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page
of a book.
[Fr., Une louange en read more

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page
of a book.
[Fr., Une louange en grec est d'une merveilleuse efficace a la
tete d'un livre.]

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons read more

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