Novels are tales of adventures which did not occur in God's creation, but only in the waste chambers (to be let unfurnished) of certain human heads, and which are part and parcel only of the sum of nothings; which, nevertheless, obtain some temporary remembrance, and lodge extensively at this epoch of the world in similar, still more unfurnished, chambers. Carlyle.
Novels are the journal or record of manners; 20 and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily. Emerson.
Novels for most part instil into young minds false views of life. Schopenhauer.
Novelty has something in it that inebriates the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates and fumes away like other intoxication, and leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an aching heart. Burns.
Novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking. Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.
Novi ego hoc sæculum, moribus quibus siet—I know this age, what its character is. Plaut.
Novi ingenium mulierum, / Nolunt ubi velis, 25 ubi nolis cupiunt ultro—I know the nature of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they will. Ter.
Novos amicos dum paras, veteres cole—While you seek new friendships, take care to cultivate the old.
Novum et ad hunc diem non auditum—New, and unheard of till this day. Cic.
Novus homo—A new man; a man risen from obscurity.