By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
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.
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
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.