“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”

“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.”

“Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.”

“Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.”

“Las costumbres de una nación tienen repercusión en su lengua y, a su vez, la lengua es la que en gran medida hace a la nación.”

“Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law”

“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”