“The noble man wants to create something new and a new virtue. The good want the old, and that old should be preserved.”

“A man who has at length found something to do will not need to get a new suit to do it in. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be. Perhaps we should never procure a new suit until we have so conducted that we feel like new men in the old.”

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”

“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”

“Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.”

“Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.”