“So there is much vanity in bringing forth old truths in novel and affected phrases, as if men desired to be thought to have found out some new thing that yet has not been or is very little known in the world, when indeed upon examination, when it is unclothed of its new expressions, it proves to be the same old truth that ordinarily has been known and taught, and so the man appears to be no knowing man, more than is ordinary. Take heed of this vanity of spirit in the holding forth of truths” (Burroughs, Irenicum, p. 118).
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