Noah Webster Quotes

WEBSTER, Noah Quotes

(1758-1843), American lexicographer

Language

Language as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

Valentine

The fourteenth of February is a day sacred to St. Valentine! It was a very odd notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to couple; hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending on this day letters containing professions of love and affection.