One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

Language is the only thing worth knowing even poorly.

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.

Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

Language is present in a piece of work like the sea in a single drop.

My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.

Knowledge—like a nail—is made load-bearing by being driven in. If it's not driven deep enough, it will break when any weight is put upon it.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

Well, now, if little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving you little by little.If suddenlyyou forget medo not look for me, for I shall already have forgotten you.

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

If you run out of ideas follow the road; you'll get there

I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily escape a sight so gross as ours.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture.