“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”

“When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man who holds onto his independence when he retains his own way of thinking. Language is the thought of a people.”

“Eating grapes with a knife and fork is not what one would call refined. It is what one would call ludicrous.”

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”

“Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork!”

“...the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.”