The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
Originality provokes originality.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
