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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.