To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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.

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.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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.

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.