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.
Roger AschamItalianate 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.
Roger AschamHe 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.
Roger Ascham