
  An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.
  Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
Mark Hopkins.    
  Languages are the keys of science.
La Bruyère.    
  The language of nature is the universal language.
  Languages are the pedigree of nations.
  The language denotes the man.
  Language is fossil poetry.
  Language is the dress of thought.
  Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.
  Language is the machine of the poet.
  Languages are the barometers of national thought and character.
J. C. and A. W. Hare.    
Sam’l Johnson.    
  In the commerce of speech use only coin of gold and silver.
Noah Webster.    
O. W. Holmes.    
  The love of our own language, what is it in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?
Sir H. Davy.    
  Language,—human language,—after all, is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,—sometimes not so adequate.
  Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
John Sterling.    
  Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.
Noah Webster.    
  Language is an art, and a glorious one, whose influence extends over all others, and in which all science whatever must centre; but an art springing from necessity, and originally invented by artless men.
                        Fie, fie upon her!
There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.
  Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which unless fixed and arrested might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing as the lightning.
