More From Quintilian
- "God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech."
- "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."
- "To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
More In Good
- "I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another."― Thomas Jefferson
- "You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."― Louisa May Alcott
- "We don’t have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way."― Hillary Clinton