C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Ancients
We derive all that is pardonable in us from ancient fountains.
Dryden.
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis.
Glanvill.
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
Addison.
Those whom we call the ancients were in truth novices in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
Prescott.
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.
Macaulay.
They left a great deal for the industry and sagacity of after ages.
Locke.