A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols of the freedom of the human spirit that the world has yet known.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

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

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.