“ poor folks cannot understand the talk of educated people. ”
 Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912). copy citation

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“There was a time when language was as rare an accomplishment as writing was in the days when it was first invented. Probably talking was originally confined to a few scholars, as writing was in the middle ages, and gradually became general. Even now speech is still growing; poor folks cannot understand the talk of educated people. Perhaps reading and writing will indeed one day come by nature. Analogy points in this direction, and though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have. iii Communications between God and man must always be either above words or below them;” source