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

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.

It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lay.

He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

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.

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.

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