I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

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

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

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

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.