To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace..

He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle: to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do..

He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, ….

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue..

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and….

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..

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

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 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….

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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 ….

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language..

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

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