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

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

“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.”

“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”

“We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.”