We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

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

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.

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

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.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom