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

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.

Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

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 little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.