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

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

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

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

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

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
Quintilian

A liar should have a good memory.
Quintilian