A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convictions, his own affections.
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.