"Till then, good-night! You wish the time were now? And I. You do not blush to wish it so? You would have blush'd yourself to death To own so much a year ago. What! both these snowy hands? ah, then I'll have to say, Good-night again."

"But fate ordains that dearest friends must part."

"Even if you choose not to marry me, the respect I hold for you will not lessen by even a single drop."

"Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good-night till it be morrow."

"They say he parted well, and paid his score; And so, God be with him!"

"If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made."

"Eyes that obstruct the road can be removed, but what happens when hearts block the passage?"

"Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind."

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."

"As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose."

"I give the fight up; let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me, I want to be forgotten even by God."

"The evolutionary urge drives man to seek for intenser forms of fulfillment, since his basic urge is for more life, more consciousness, and this contentment has an air of stagnation that the healthy mind rejects. (This recognition lies at the centre of my own 'outsider theory': that there are human beings to whom comfort means nothing, but whose happiness consists in following an obscure inner-drive, an 'appetite for reality'.)"

"Eo magis præfulgebat quod non videbatur."

"Yet was he but a squire of low degree."

"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot."

"The palpable obscure."

"Now, in our opinion, no author should be blamed for obscurity; nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry."

"That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error."

"Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts."

"Content thyself to be obscurely good."

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

"Sehen Sie, die beste Neuigkeit verliert, sobald sie Stadtmärchen wird."

"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi."

"Est natura hominum novitatis avida."

"Dulcique animos novitate tenebo."

"Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefällig sei?"

"There is nothing new except what is forgotten."

"The sort of thing that pleased the public mind was caricatures of eminent politicians after a course of Boom-feeding, uses of the idea on hoardings, and such edifying exhibitions as the dead wasps that had escaped the fire and the remaining hens. Beyond that the public did not care to look, until very strenuous efforts were made to turn its eyes to the remoter consequences, and even then for a while its enthusiasm for action was partial. "There's always somethin' New," said the public--a public so glutted with novelty that it would hear of the earth being split as one splits an apple without surprise, and, "I wonder what they'll do next.""

"Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses."

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance that has grown stale, which men of old have spoken."

"There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.""

"Omnivores therefore go through life with two competing motives: neophilia (an attraction to new things) and neophobia (a fear of new things). People vary in terms of which motive is stronger […]: Liberals score higher on measures of neophilia (also known as "openness to experience"), not just for new foods but also for new people, music, and ideas. Conservatives are higher on neophobia; they prefer to stick with what's tried and true, and they care a lot more about guarding borders, boundaries, and traditions."

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."

"Spick and span new."

"Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is."

"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

"Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty, and virtue Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating."

"Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility."

"Noblesse oblige."

"Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me— Virtue alone is true nobility!"

"Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an, Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut."

"There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease."

"O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!"

"Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds."

"Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores."

"If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy."