Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.

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.]

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

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 helps form the limits of our reality.

Language helps form the limits of our reality.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

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

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy read more

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.