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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
| Originality |
| No man knows himself as an original. Washington Allston. | 1 |
| They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites. Seneca. | 2 |
| Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. Voltaire. | 3 |
| The originality of a subject is in its treatment. Beaconsfield. | 4 |
| What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. Thackeray. | 5 |
| Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. Emerson. | 6 |
| All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves. Lowell. | 7 |
| The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. Carlyle. | 8 |
| Great things cannot have escaped former observation. Dr. Johnson. | 9 |
| Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal. Marie Ebner-Eschenbach. | 10 |
| If you would create something, you must be something. Goethe. | 11 |
| Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. John Stuart Mill. | 12 |
| Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. Cecil. | 13 |
| When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: “Yes, he was more original than his originals.” He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them to life. Emerson. | 14 |
| Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Johnson. | 15 |
| One couldn’t carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves. George Eliot. | 16 |
| People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. Goethe. | 17 |
| Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies. G. A. Sala. | 18 |
| The little mind who loves itself will write and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence. Goldsmith. | 19 |
| I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts. W. B. Clulow. | 20 |
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| Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. Lowell. | 21 |
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