Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
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.
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.