A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.