Ben Jonson Quote

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Sir Philip Sydney's Defence of poetry, and, Observations on poetry and eloquence, from the Discoveries of Ben Jonson (ed. 1787)