Today the Wheel takes us to Chapter 5 of Nightmare Abbey (1818). Mr. Flosky is speaking.

"This rage for novelty is the bane of literature. Except my works and those of my particular friends, nothing is good that is not as old as Jeremy Taylor: and, entre nous, the best parts of my friends' books were either written or suggested by myself."

Notes: 

--Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), a cleric in the Church of England. The "Shakespeare of the Divines."

--entre nous: between us