There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
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 for their children.
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.