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Antiquity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!— JOHN FERRIAR — Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. L. 139.

Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.— JOHN FERRIAR — Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. L. 69.

Antiquity, what is it else (God only excepted) but man's authority born some ages before us? Now for the truth of things time makes no alteration; things are still the same they are, let the time be past, present, or to come. Those things which we reverence for antiquity what were they at their first birth? Were they false?-time cannot make them true. Were they true?-time cannot make them more true. The circumstances therefore of time in respect of truth and error is merely impertinent. JOHN HALES (The Ever Memorable)- Of Inquiry and Private Judgment in Religion. Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity.— CHARLES LAMB — Bon Mots by Charles

Lamb and Douglas Jerrold. Ed. by Walter Jerrold. With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.— POPE — Epistle to Mr. Addison. L. 35.