He would have so abounded with intellectual fertility that men would not have known whether most to admire his powers of expression or to deprecate his want of reticence.
There will necessarily be much to be said of Cicero's writings in the following pages, as it is my object to delineate the literary man as well as the politician.

In doing this, there arises a difficulty as to the sequence in which his works should be taken.

It will hardly suit the purpose in view to speak of them all either chronologically or separately as to their subjects.

The speeches and the letters clearly require the former treatment as applying each to the very moment of time at which they were either spoken or written.

His treatises, whether on rhetoric or on the Greek philosophy, or on government, or on morals, can best be taken apart as belonging in a very small degree, if at all, to the period in which they were written.