Alphabet

"A scholarship liked myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril."

"Ἐγὼ τὸ Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ, ὁ πρῶτος καὶ ὁ ἔσχατος, ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος."

"By my life, this is my lady’s hand: these be her very C’s, her U’s, and her T’s, and thus makes she her great P’s."

"Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!"

"In the placed I go there are things that I see That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z. I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!"

"The chief cause which made the fusion of the different elements of society so imperfect was the extreme difficulty which our ancestors found in passing from place to place. Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the mean of locomotions benefits mankind mortally AND intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitated the interchange of the various productions of mature and artist, but rends to removed nationals and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches of the human family."

"Wer das ABC recht kann, hat die schwerste Arbeit getan."

"Wer das ABC nicht ertragen kann, dem muss man keine Bibel geben."

"Mit dem ABC kann man richten, // Krieg und große Sachen schlichten."

"Das ABC mach das meiste Weh."

"Auf A folgt B in unserem ABC."

"Hinter dem U kommt gleich das Weh, // das ist die Ordnung im ABC."

"Das Größeste ist das Alphabet, // Denn alle Weisheit steckt darin, // Aber nur der erkennt den Sinn, // Der's recht zusammenzusetzen versteht."