The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

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.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

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.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.