It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience..

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning..

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with ot….

Aristotle him selfe sayeth, that medicines be no meate to lyue withall..

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay..

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write..

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse..

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering..

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty..

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning..

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise..

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaug….

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill..

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style..

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little..

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & h….

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man….

A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room..

Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new ….

Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt….

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language..