Such are the aids which we may derive from
external sources; as regards those which we must
supply for ourselves, it is the pen which brings at
once the most labour and the most profit. Cicero is
fully justified in describing it as the best producer
and teacher of eloquence, and it may be noted
that in the de Oratore1 he supports his own
judgment by the authority of Lucius Crassus, in
whose mouth he places this remark.
1 De Or. i. 150.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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