"I feel that in many respects I and my assistants are simply pioneers, pushing our way experimentally through an untro…"

"Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning — if you have enough of them."

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"Anglia cui mater fuerat, cui Gallia nutrix, Matri nutricem praefero mente meam. Six utriusque tamen meritis praeconia…"

"Death at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine: Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying …"

"Aux États-Unis la nature, comme la société, n'est pas toujours belle, mais elle est toujours grande."

"The inglorious toils of compilation seldom excite the gratitude of readers, who only require to be amused, and are in…"

"Since the normal tendency is to simplify, to trivialize, to eliminate the unfamiliar word or construction, the rule i…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"