The pen is the tongue of the mind; the thoughts that are formed in the one, and those that are traced by the other, will bear a near resemblance.[translation by John Willis Clark]The pen is the tongue of the mind, and as the thought engendered there, so will be the things that it writes down.[translation by John Ormsby][La pluma es lengua del alma: cuales fueren los conceptos que en ella se engendraren, tales serán sus escritos.]
Source:(ed. 1871), Part II, Chapter XVI, Page 407; (ed. 1885), Part II, Chapter XVI, Volume III, Page 173
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