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

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.

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.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

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.

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