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— Jean de la Bruyere"Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other."
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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
— George Bernard Shaw
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