It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Source: In Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992.
-- Stendhal, (Jan 23 1783-1842), French novelist; He was a leading literary figure best known for psychological and political insight in The Red and the Black, 1830.