What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

The things we recognize flash right by, where once they held our attention. Only the new bears careful contemplation, and the new gets harder and harder to come by.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

This work contains many things which are new and interesting. Unfortunately, everything that is new is not interesting, and everything which is interesting, is not new.

There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.

What is true is alas not new, the new not true.

People don't want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

People don't want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

You can’t have a new idea ’til you’ve got rid of an old one.

Here’s how to live: Value only what has endured.

Old things do not interest me, I like new things for the simple reason that they never get old.

One can act too much in the cause of self-preservation and experience nothing fresh as a result.