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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Even, she thought, even without the gift of witchsight, there was more beauty to be found in the world than could ever be snared in language or music. And with the sight...”