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.

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.

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

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.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.