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

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.

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.

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

I remember when I was young, in the north, they went to the grammar school little children: they came from thence great lubbers: always learning, and little profiting: learning without book everything, understanding within the book little or nothing.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

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.