Language/origin

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or origin:

“This is an approach to that universal language which men have sought in vain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)