When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.