To please the many is to displease the wise.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye.