'"...All you said was true enough."
"True, but hardly new," Lilias said impatiently.
"Why should you think to say something new?" said Cornelius, with simple sententiousness. "Who can think anything new, for that matter? We just think and act and speak, the cleverest or the most foolish of us, like our fathers before us. We have the same natures, we live on the same earth, we know the same changing seasons, the same growing and fading crops, and rising and setting sun. The same crowds in the cities and silence in the mountains. 'Tis for that we love the wisdom of old writers, because they echo word for word our own experiences of every day - our own thoughts - our own reflections."
from Cornelius by Mrs Henry de la Pasture (Chapter XIII)
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