Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.
It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.
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.
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.