To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. – Nicolas Charles Joseph Trublet

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. – James Alexander Thom

…the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind. – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876