Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

— Saint Augustine

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and…

— Saint Augustine

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and…

— Saint Augustine

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all…

— Anne Rice

“There was a mysterious chasm between this island and the greater world, just like there was between old and young, ancient and new.”

— Ann Brashares

“Late have I loved you, Beauty so very ancient and so ever new. Late I have loved you! You were within, but I was…

— Augustine of Hippo

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

— Gautama Buddha

The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect…

— Laozi

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

— Henry David Thoreau

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

— Helen Garner

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,…

— Confucius

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita