Propositions
"If we can advance any propositions that are both true and new, these are indisputably our own, by right of discovery; and if we can repeat what is old more briefly and brightly than others, this also becomes our own, by right of conquest."
-Charles Caleb Colton,
Preface, "Lacon, Or, Many Things In Few Words: Addressed To Those Who Think" (Vol. I, 1820; Vol. II, 1822; corrected one volume edition, 1836)