John Dewey: “That and that only gives reality to public opinion.”

Publication is partial and the public which results is partially informed and formed until the meanings it purveys pass from mouth to mouth.

Signs and symbols, language, are the means of communication by which a fraternally shared experience is ushered in and sustained.

We lie, as Emerson said, in the lap of an immense intelligence.

But the wingèd words of conversation in immediate intercourse have a vital import lacking in the fixed and frozen words of written speech.