Famous quotes containing the words human and/or language:
“All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“He never doubts his genius; it is only he and his God in all the world. He uses language sometimes as greatly as Shakespeare; and though there is not much straight grain in him, there is plenty of tough, crooked timber.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)