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

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

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

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

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.

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

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 world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.