Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

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

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

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

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.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.