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

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.

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.

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

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.