Quintilian

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Quintilian

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

Quintilian

Usage is the best language teacher.

Quintilian

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

Quintilian

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Quintilian

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Quintilian

We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

Quintilian

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Quintilian

A woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.

Quintilian

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Quintilian