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

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

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.

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.

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

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

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