So that if any other do innovate and bring up to me a word afore not used or not heard, I would not dispraise it: and that I do attempt to bring it into use, another man should not cavil at."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
It cannot at this time be too often repeated, line upon line, precept upon precept, until it comes into the currency of a proverb,-To innovate is not to reform.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
Virgil therefore, and those very few who have succeeded him, endeavoured not to introduce, or innovate, any thing in a design already perfected, but imitated the plan of the inventor; and are only so far true heroic poets, as they have built on the foundations of Homer.
"The Works Of John Dryden, Vol. 7 (of 18) The Duke of Guise; Albion and Albanius; Don Sebastian"
John Dryden