Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

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.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

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

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

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, 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.