"I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.""

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain