Institutio Oratoria

But these different kinds of work, of which I speak, are not merely the product of different authors, but have each their own following of admirers, with the result that the perfect orator has not yet been found, a statement which perhaps may be extended to all arts, not merely because some qualities are more evident in some artists than in others, but because one single form

will not satisfy all critics, a fact which is due in part to conditions of time or place, in part to the taste and ideals of individuals.