For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
QUINTILIANTo swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
More Quintilian Quotes
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Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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Usage is the best language teacher.
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That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
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Lately we have had many losses.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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