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.

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

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

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

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

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.

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.