It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

I never taught language for the purpose of teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.