It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.
It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the well wishers thereof.... They count as fables the holy mysteries of religion.