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.

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.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

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

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

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