The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.