A man who doubts much can never do that.

The thing that was right to him in the thinking became wrong to him in the doing.

That from which he has shrunk as evil when it was within his grasp, takes the color of good when it has been beyond his reach.

Cicero had not the stuff in him to rule the Rome and the Romans of his period; but he was a man whose hands were free from all stain, either of blood or money; and for so much let him, at any rate, have the credit.
Between the return of Cicero to Rome in 77 B.C.and his election as Quaestor in 75, in which period he married Terentia, he made various speeches in different causes, of which only one remains to us, or rather, a small part of one.

This is notable as having been spoken in behalf of that Roscius, the great comic actor, whose name has become familiar to us on account of his excellence, almost as have those of Garrick, of Siddons, and of Talma.