English Language

The English language is not a square with definite sides containing its area; it is a circle, but a circle such as Euclid never contemplated, having its centre a point which hath many parts, and nowhere bounded by any line called a circumference. It is a spot of colour on a damp surface, which shades away imperceptibly into the surrounding colourlessness; it is an illuminated area in a midnight landscape, whose beams practically end somewhere, though no eye hath beheld the vanishing line.

-James Murray