Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

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

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

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

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.

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.