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.

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

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

Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.