A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

- Quintilian

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

- Quintilian

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

- Quintilian

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

- Quintilian

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

- Quintilian

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

- Quintilian

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

- Quintilian

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

- Quintilian

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

- Quintilian