Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

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

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.

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.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

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