He would only be known to be a foreigner by the correctness of his language.

In language clarity is everything.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

Human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.

Let's have some new cliches.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

Language is the dress of thought.

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted.

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.