A liar should have a good memory.

— Quintilian

If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

— Quintilian

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

— Quintilian

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

— Quintilian

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

— Quintilian

The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.

— Quintilian

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

— Quintilian

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

— Quintilian