Each of the four languages, taken by itself, is admirable because it is original.

Every age has its own ideas; it must have also words adapted to those ideas.
Languages are like the sea, they move to and fro incessantly.

At certain times they leave one shore of the world of thought and overflow another.

All that their waves thus abandon dries up and vanishes.

It is in this wise that ideas vanish, that words disappear.
It is the same with human tongues as with everything.