Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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• Quintilian:

  Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than bar

• Quintilian:

  It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

• Quintilian:

  As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict

• Quintilian:

  For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

• Quintilian:

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

• Quintilian:

  It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at tim

• Quintilian:

  The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is

• Quintilian:

  When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

• Quintilian:

  Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

• Quintilian:

  Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.