It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.
As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.
It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
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 all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.