Language Proper

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or proper:

    For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)