Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

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.

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.

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

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.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.