We come too late to say anything which has not been said already

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably