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.

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.

Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

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.

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

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.