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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.