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.
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.
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.