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.

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.

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.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

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

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