Quintilian

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

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

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

Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, Among the wise seem foolish.